{"id":140716,"date":"2020-04-18T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/18\/british-muslims-find-new-ways-to-be-together-for-ramadan-under-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2020-04-18T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:35:10","slug":"british-muslims-find-new-ways-to-be-together-for-ramadan-under-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=140716","title":{"rendered":"British Muslims find new ways to be together for Ramadan under lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With mosques closed, prayers are moving online and video conferencing apps will be used for iftar parties at sunsetCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAt Finsbury Park mosque in north London \u2013 once a byword for extremism, now a model of tolerance and community outreach \u2013 the first night of Ramadan heralds a month of communal praying, eating and charity work. About 2,000 people attend prayers each day. Volunteers cram into its kitchen to prepare iftar, the meal that breaks the Ramadan fast at sunset, for 300 people each night.Not this year. \u201cWe will miss all that,\u201d said Mohammed Kozbar, the mosque\u2019s general secretary. The building\u2019s gates are locked, with only security guards patrolling its prayer halls and community spaces. \u201cI visited last week. It was heartbreaking to see it empty and silent,\u201d said Kozbar. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/18\/british-muslims-find-new-ways-to-be-together-for-ramadan-under-lockdown\" target=\"_blank\">British Muslims find new ways to be together for Ramadan under lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With mosques closed, prayers are moving online and video conferencing apps will be used for iftar parties at sunsetCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAt Finsbury Park mosque in north London \u2013 once a byword for extremism, now a model of tolerance and community outreach \u2013 the first night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}