{"id":3712,"date":"2014-06-21T07:31:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T07:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2014-06-21T07:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T07:31:57","slug":"arrests-over-norway-imam-attack-muslims-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/06\/21\/3712\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests over Norway imam attack, Muslims threatened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/norvec-cami-imamina-baltali-saldiri.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Several mosques in Norway recieve threats that are full of hatred agaisnt Muslims including the mosque Nehmat Ali Shah was an imam in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to The Islamic Council, Norwegian mosques receive an increasing number of threats that are full of hatred against Muslims.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Secretary General in the Islamic Council in Norway, Mehtab Afsar, tells Klassekampen that both the Imam&#8217;s mosque, Central Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, as well as other mosques have received several threats.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;This is an unfortunate development,&#8221; Afsar said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nehmat Ali Shah, the imam of the Central Jamaat Ahle-Sunnat mosque on Oslo, was wounded in the face and hands after he was attacked by a masked man late on Monday night.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We conducted a search of his house and have therefore charged the two men,&#8221; Grete Lien Metlid from the Oslo police told Norway&#8217;s VG newspaper.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Both have been questioned, but we have decided not to detain them.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oyvind Bergoy Pedersen, the lawyer representing the two men, told the newspaper that the charges had been expected given the known history of conflict between his client and the imam.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;My client was aware that this was going to happen, since he has been in conflict with the imam before,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He has now been questioned by the police, and is 100 percent sure that the indictment will become waived. He has nothing to hide, and is relieved to explain himself to the police,&#8221; Pedersen said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2002, Shah was forced to stand down as imam of the mosque.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However in 2004, the returned to the position. Two years later in 2006, four people were injured when four men attacked the mosque with a cricket bat, hammer, and several knives.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2008, Norway&#8217;s Court of Appeal said that two families have long been in conflict over control of the mosque, with the dispute chiefly revolving around who should be the imam. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <strong><em>World Bulletin<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several mosques in Norway recieve threats that are full of hatred agaisnt Muslims including the mosque Nehmat Ali Shah was an imam in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c102-muslim-minorities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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