{"id":5843,"date":"2018-05-09T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5843-sweden-allows-mosque-call-to-prayer\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:30:37","slug":"sweden-allows-mosque-call-to-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5843-sweden-allows-mosque-call-to-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden allows mosque call to prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish police Tuesday granted a mosque permission to hold a weekly call to prayer, triggering divisions among politicians and the public, five months ahead of elections in a country which has taken in waves of asylum seekers in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Swedish police Tuesday granted a mosque permission to hold a weekly call to prayer, triggering divisions among politicians and the public, five months ahead of elections in a country which has taken in waves of asylum seekers in recent years.<\/h4>\n<h4>The police permit, which is valid for a year, has caused concern among some politicians that it will exacerbate cultural tensions, while others maintained a neutral stance ahead of the Sept. 9 general election.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>But Sweden\u2019s Social Democrats Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said that ending segregation goes hand in hand with tackling unemployment and making sure schools and neighborhoods have high standards.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe entire society in Sweden is built on having different religions,\u201d he told TT, AFP reported.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>According to a poll conducted by social research company SIFO and published by the private broadcaster TV4 in March, 60 percent of respondents said they wanted to ban the call to prayer from mosques in Sweden.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish police Tuesday granted a mosque permission to hold a weekly call to prayer, triggering divisions among politicians and the public, five months ahead of elections in a country which has taken in waves of asylum seekers in recent years. \u00a0 Swedish police Tuesday granted a mosque permission to hold a weekly call to prayer, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[739,664,251,69],"class_list":["post-5843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-call","tag-country","tag-prayer","tag-sweden"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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