{"id":9826,"date":"2013-08-19T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/saudi-prince-sacks-tv-preacher\/"},"modified":"2013-08-19T04:29:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T04:29:38","slug":"saudi-prince-sacks-tv-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/saudi-prince-sacks-tv-preacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Prince Sacks TV Preacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{A well-known Kuwaiti preacher, Tareq al-Suwaidan, has been sacked from his job as the director of a Saudi religious TV channel because of his links to the Muslim Brotherhood.}}<\/p>\n<p>Channel owner Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said there was no place for Muslim Brotherhood members in his business.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Suwaidan has been a fierce critic of Egypt&#8217;s military-backed government.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi King Abdullah has, however, given strong backing to the new Egyptian administration.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Alwaleed wrote on his Twitter account that he had dismissed Mr Suwaidan &#8220;for admitting he belongs to the Brotherhood terrorist movement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The preacher had reportedly identified himself as &#8220;one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8221; during a lecture in Yemen, according to Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The king&#8217;s nephew, Prince Alwaleed, wrote in Mr Suwaidan&#8217;s dismissal letter &#8211; which he tweeted a copy of &#8211; that the preacher had been warned several times against publicly declaring his political affiliations.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Suwaidan, who is known across the Arab world for his lectures on self-improvement from an Islamic perspective, was the director-general of the Al Risala (The Message) religious channel.<\/p>\n<p>It belongs to Prince Alwaleed&#8217;s Rotana Group, which is a large pan-Arab media conglomerate based in Riyadh and serves the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3429 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/44-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>wirestory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{A well-known Kuwaiti preacher, Tareq al-Suwaidan, has been sacked from his job as the director of a Saudi religious TV channel because of his links to the Muslim Brotherhood.}} Channel owner Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said there was no place for Muslim Brotherhood members in his business. Mr Suwaidan has been a fierce critic of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}