{"id":60295,"date":"2015-11-05T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=60295"},"modified":"2015-11-05T23:51:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T20:51:27","slug":"mufti-hassoun-syria-is-secular-democratic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=60295","title":{"rendered":"Mufti Hassoun: Syria is secular, Democratic state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow, SANA-Syria&#8217;s Grand Mufti, Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun said on Thursday that Syria was and still is a secular, democratic and unified state where Muslims and Christians live in peace and tolerance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A secular state doesn&#8217;t mean combating religion as prophets hadn&#8217;t come to establish religious states, but they have come to serve humanity,&#8221; Mufti Hassoun added during a meeting with Chairman of the Russian Communist party Gennady Zyuganov.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60300 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/23.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, Hassoun congratulated the Russian friendly people on Russia&#8217;s national day, thanking Russia for the support it offers to Syria in combating the crimes of terrorists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Syria is paying the price for its pan-Arab stances as it has remained steadfast for nearly 5 years against terrorists and foreign mercenaries who came from abroad in an attempt to divide Syria and overcome its civilized and glorious pattern,&#8221; Hassoun affirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For his part, Zyganov underlined that the communist MPS at Duma Council will do their best, from a legislative point of view, to increase military, humanitarian and economic assistance to Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this regard, Syria&#8217;s Ambassador in Moscow Riad Haddad also offered congratulations on Russia National day, affirming the importance of cooperation and friendly relations connecting Moscow and Damascus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mazen Eyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA-Syria&#8217;s Grand Mufti, Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun said on Thursday that Syria was and still is a secular, democratic and unified state where Muslims and Christians live in peace and tolerance. &#8220;A secular state doesn&#8217;t mean combating religion as prophets hadn&#8217;t come to establish religious states, but they have come to serve humanity,&#8221; Mufti Hassoun &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":60297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,106],"tags":[7649,7648],"class_list":["post-60295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-democratic-state","tag-mufti-hassoun-syria-is-secular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}