{"id":3765,"date":"2014-08-24T06:08:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2014-08-24T06:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:08:41","slug":"muslim-killed-inside-swiss-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/08\/24\/3765\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Killed Inside Swiss Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/muslimKilled-Inside-Swiss-Mosque.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A Muslim man has been shot dead inside an Albanian mosque in north eastern Switzerland city of St. Gallen while another man has been arrested, Swiss police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The incident has been reported after police was called into the mosque after a shooting.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finding the victim\u2019s body in the prayer room of the mosque, a spokesman for the cantonal police said that police arrested a man with a handgun.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yet, he added that it was too early to say what motive there might be for the killing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a statement issued on Saturday, police announced that a 51-year-old Serbian man has confessed to the shooting.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The victim, also 51 years old, was a Swiss citizen with Albanian roots.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Representatives of the El-Hidaje mosque, where the shooting took place, were not immediately available for comment.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yet, Fehim Dragusha, a former imam who served at the El-Hidaje mosque for three years, said the crime was not politically motivated.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a personal conflict between two families, who were possibly settling a score,&#8221; he told Reuters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s nothing political at all.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Switzerland is home to an estimated 500,000 Muslims, out of a population of more than 8 million, most of whom are immigrants from Albania and elsewhere in the Balkans.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2013, about 80,000 foreigners have immigrated to Switzerland, according to the People&#8217;s Party (SVP).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are 1.7 million immigrants in Switzerland, making up 22.3 percent of the country\u2019s 7.9 million population.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vote is not the first to raise controversy in Switzerland.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2009, the SVP has championed a ban on the building of mosque minarets in the European country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are nearly 160 mosques and prayer rooms in Switzerland, mainly in disused factories and warehouses.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only four of them have minarets, none of them used to raise the Azan, the call to prayer, which is banned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> OnIslam<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim man has been shot dead inside an Albanian mosque in north eastern Switzerland city of St. Gallen while another man has been arrested, Swiss police said.<\/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-3765","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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