{"id":489,"date":"2013-11-17T23:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T22:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=489"},"modified":"2013-11-17T23:50:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T22:50:57","slug":"489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/489\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi king calls for unity in the Muslim world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_490\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligntop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-490\" src=\"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image.jpg\" alt=\"King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz\" width=\"510\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-490\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz said on Wednesday that Muslims should put their differences aside and open a dialogue between the difference sects of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goals are for the interests of Muslims and because of the fear of division among Muslims. Dialogue between Islamic sects is the best way to unite and understand each other. Our differences should not affect the unity of the Islamic Ummah,\u201d read a statement from King Abdullah, which was read out by Crown Prince Salman at the annual reception held in Mina to welcome the heads of international hajj missions.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, the Saudi king also said that Muslims must put aside all the differences and rivalries by establishing a center of dialogue between Islamic sects in the holy city of Madina, a plan which was adopted by the Conference of Islamic Solidarity in Makkah during the month of Ramadan earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>He also said in his address that the kingdom will not allow any offence or interference in its internal or foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the land of the Prophet\u2019s message, we are telling the world that we are a nation that will never compromise its religious and moral values and we will never allow anyone to offend the sovereignty of our nation or interfere in its internal or foreign affairs,\u201d the king\u2019s statement read. <\/p>\n<p>The king also expressed hopes for mutual respect and friendship between countries regardless of any interests and benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this era of rivalries, we must reject authoritarianism and arrogance and if we realize this, then our hearts will have all the values of friendship and whoever disagrees is on his own, as we have the pride and dignity of our people.\u201d Alarabiya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz said on Wednesday that Muslims should put their differences aside and open a dialogue between the difference sects of Islam. \u201cOur goals are for the interests of Muslims and because of the fear of division among Muslims. Dialogue between Islamic sects is the best way to unite and understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-23"],"views":1587,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}