{"id":6215,"date":"2024-01-04T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:19:11","slug":"imam-shot-in-newark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2024\/01\/04\/imam-shot-in-newark\/","title":{"rendered":"Imam Shot in Newark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Imam Hassan Sharif was shot and killed outside his mosque today. We ask Allah to enter him into paradise and grant solace to his family and congregation. Police are currently looking for the perpetrator. So far, no evidence has been found indicating a bias motive in the shooting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C7HJQNqbna\">pic.twitter.com\/C7HJQNqbna<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CAIR National (@CAIRNational) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAIRNational\/status\/1742659032542740744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;We are hurting .. please keep Imam Hassan and his family in your prayers&quot; <br><br>Imam Antar Mateen of Masjid Muhammed-Newark provides a first public statement since the Masjid Imam, Hassan Sharif, was fatally shot outside the New Jersey mosque on Wednesday. <br><br>Authorities say the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VIjXoSNHaf\">pic.twitter.com\/VIjXoSNHaf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 5Pillars (@5Pillarsuk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/5Pillarsuk\/status\/1742910460150837379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,147],"tags":[730,416],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-muslims","category-mosques","tag-american-muslims","tag-mosques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6216,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}