{"id":49487,"date":"2019-12-05T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49487"},"modified":"2019-12-05T18:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:11:24","slug":"erdogan-opens-cambridge-eco-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/erdogan-opens-cambridge-eco-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan opens Cambridge &#8216;eco-mosque&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-49489\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Erdugan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Erdugan.jpg 728w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Erdugan-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Erdugan-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/>A Muslim can not be a terrorist and Islam does not produce terrorists, the Turkish President said Thursday, once again rejecting the term &#8220;Islamic terrorism&#8221;. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said racism, discrimination and Islamophobia spread like a poison ivy in countries once seen as cradles of democracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erdogan\u2019s remarks came at the inauguration ceremony of Cambridge Central Mosque which he attended with first lady Emine Erdogan and a group of high-level Turkish officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Muslim women are abused only because they wear headscarves,&#8221; in Erdogan said, referring to recent Islamophobic attacks. He added that Christians and Jewish people were also targeted in such attacks. Erdogan underlined that regardless of identity, all terrorists were &#8220;bloodthirsty vampires&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cambridge Central Mosque in the east of England. Described as Europe&#8217;s first eco-mosque, the facility is equipped with solar panels, relies on green energy and aims for a zero-carbon footprint. It first opened to the public in April. According to the mosque&#8217;s website, its design was inspired by both Islamic and English religious architectural traditions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Europe&#8217;s first &#8216;eco-mosque&#8217; aims to protect the environment ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dUMhbo9bLR\">pic.twitter.com\/dUMhbo9bLR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/status\/1138234390570364928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/erdogan-opens-cambridge-eco-mosque\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim can not be a terrorist and Islam does not produce terrorists, the Turkish President said Thursday, once again rejecting the term &#8220;Islamic terrorism&#8221;. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said racism, discrimination and Islamophobia spread like a poison ivy in countries once seen as cradles of democracy. Erdogan\u2019s remarks came at the inauguration ceremony of Cambridge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49490,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49487\/revisions\/49490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}