{"id":5179,"date":"2015-07-05T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2015-07-05T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T17:34:59","slug":"tunisia-closes-mosques-for-security-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/tunisia-closes-mosques-for-security-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia closes mosques for security reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday to give his government more powers following an ISIL attack on a beach hotel, where 38 foreign tourists, were killed.<br \/>\nThe statement from the president&#8217;s office said Essebsi would give a speech on national television with more details at 1600 GMT.<br \/>\nIn reaction to armed group recruiters, the government says it will close 80 mosques allegedly linked with extreme groups.<br \/>\n&#8220;For the moment, this was Ansar al-Sharia who were behind this,&#8221; said the Tunisian security source.<br \/>\nLast July, Tunisia launched a crackdown on mosques and radio stations associated with conservative groups following a deadly attack on its soldiers near the Algeria border.<br \/>\nLast July, the office of Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa has said in a statement that the prime minister has decided to close immediately all the mosques that are not under the control of the authorities.<\/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\/tunisia-closes-mosques-for-security-reasons\/\" 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>Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday to give his government more powers following an ISIL attack on a beach hotel, where 38 foreign tourists, were killed. The statement from the president&#8217;s office said Essebsi would give a speech on national television with more details at 1600 GMT. In reaction &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179"}],"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=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}