{"id":421352,"date":"2010-03-12T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12350"},"modified":"2010-03-12T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:18:10","slug":"french-mosque-reopens-after-protest-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421352","title":{"rendered":"French mosque reopens after protest disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12358\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 361px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12358\" title=\"drancy map\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/03\/drancy-map-351x330-custom.jpg\" alt=\"drancy map\" width=\"351\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drancy on a map of greater Paris<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A French mosque,  whose imam says he has received death threats over his promotion of  dialogue with Jews, reopened for Friday prayers after it was forced to  close down this week due to disruptive protests.\u00a0 The mosque in Drancy, a suburb to the north  of Paris, has been the focus of tension for weeks with a small group of  protesters keeping up a noisy barrage of criticism against the imam  Hassen Chalghoumi.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been  facing really enormous pressure for five or six weeks now,&#8221; <\/em>Chalghoumi  told reporters before Friday prayers. <em>&#8220;We want peace, we want calm.  These people aren&#8217;t welcome here.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Chalghoumi spoke, a group of around 30  protesters from a group named after Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of\u00a0 the Palestinian Hamas movement, gathered outside the fence of the mosque, facing off with  fluorescent-vested security staff preventing them from entering.<\/p>\n<p>The problems at the Drancy mosque have  underlined the volatile mix of prejudice, integration problems and fears  over radical Islamist extremism that have often plagued France&#8217;s large  Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSLDE62B20N\">the whole article here<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idFRPAE62B0N320100312\">report for our French-language service<\/a> by my colleague Elizabeth Pineau.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at  RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drancy on a map of greater Paris A French mosque, whose imam says he has received death threats over his promotion of dialogue with Jews, reopened for Friday prayers after it was forced to close down this week due to disruptive protests.\u00a0 The mosque in Drancy, a suburb to the north of Paris, has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}