{"id":380739,"date":"2018-10-13T01:46:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T00:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-imam-fired-for-anti-saudi-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-10-13T01:46:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T00:46:35","slug":"presstv-uk-imam-fired-for-anti-saudi-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-imam-fired-for-anti-saudi-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK imam fired for anti-Saudi comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A British Imam has been fired from a Saudi-financed London mosque after he criticized the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and the country&#8217;s royal family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imam Ajmal Masroor was fired from the Fitzrovia Mosque, also known as Goodge Street mosque in central London, which is run by the Saudi-funded Muslim World League.<\/p>\n<p>Masroor&#8217;s firing took place just days after he used his personal Facebook page to post a video which described the Saudi royal family as &#8220;corrupt, despotic and totally anti-Islamic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In another post, the imam also criticised Mohammed bin Salman for arresting opposition activists and Islamic scholars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am 100 percent sure that they fired me because of my comments about Mohammad bin Salman where I said he was not a reformer but a conformer,&#8221; said Masroor.&#8221;When I asked why they were firing me, I was told that it was an order that had come from the top. Which means the Saudi government wanted me out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Masroor said the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/12\/576809\/UK-imam-fired-for-antiSaudi-comments\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British Imam has been fired from a Saudi-financed London mosque after he criticized the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and the country&#8217;s royal family. Imam Ajmal Masroor was fired from the Fitzrovia Mosque, also known as Goodge Street mosque in central London, which is run by the Saudi-funded Muslim World League. Masroor&#8217;s firing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}