{"id":2662,"date":"2017-11-02T23:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T23:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2017-11-02T23:53:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T23:53:57","slug":"crownprince-mohammeds-vow-to-moderate-saudi-islam-easier-to-say-than-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/11\/02\/crownprince-mohammeds-vow-to-moderate-saudi-islam-easier-to-say-than-done\/","title":{"rendered":"CROWNPRINCE MOHAMMED\u2019S VOW TO MODERATE SAUDI ISLAM : EASIER TO SAY THAN DONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2663\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-1024x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-560x286.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-260x133.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-160x82.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Modern Diplomacy<\/p>\n<p>By Dr. James M. Dorsey<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman\u2019s recent disavowal of the kingdom\u2019s founding religious ideology had a master\u2019s voice quality to it. His words could have literally come out of the mouth of his Emirati counterpart and mentor, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, but with one major difference: the UAE unlike the kingdom has no roots in ultra-conservative Sunni Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of an overriding puritan religious history has made it easier for Prince Mohammed bin Zayed to campaign against Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism and since the popular Arab revolts of 2011 suppress any expression of political Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced : Free Press Kashmir<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/moderndiplomacy.eu\/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=item&amp;id=3127%3Acrown-prince-mohammed-s-vow-to-moderate-saudi-islam-easier-said-than-done&amp;Itemid=139#.WfhKon2hOoA.facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Modern Diplomacy By Dr. James M. Dorsey Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman\u2019s recent disavowal of the kingdom\u2019s founding religious ideology had a master\u2019s voice quality to it. His words could have literally come out of the mouth of his Emirati counterpart and mentor, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, but with one major&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/11\/02\/crownprince-mohammeds-vow-to-moderate-saudi-islam-easier-to-say-than-done\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CROWNPRINCE MOHAMMED\u2019S VOW TO MODERATE SAUDI ISLAM : EASIER TO SAY THAN DONE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1677,1676],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman","tag-sunni-islam","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}