{"id":550,"date":"2021-09-18T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2021-09-24T18:55:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:55:44","slug":"muslim-owned-french-publishing-house-faces-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/muslim-owned-french-publishing-house-faces-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim-owned French publishing house faces closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>French<\/strong> <strong>interior minister says publishing house is being closed for its anti-Western and separatist line<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday announced the closure of the Muslim-owned publishing house Nawa, describing it as contrary to Western values and having separatist tendencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to Twitter, Darmanin wrote: &#8220;I have started the termination process due to some of the works of the Islamist publishing house Nawa, in particular, legitimizing jihad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that the necessary steps have been taken to freeze the assets of the publishing house and detain the managers of the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le Figaro newspaper also reported that the Nawa publishing house was asked to close down &#8220;due to its anti-universal, separatist and anti-Western publishing line\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darmanin accused the managers of the publishing house, whose full name is the Nawa Center for Oriental Studies and Translation, of being &#8220;connected with jihadi extremists&#8221;.<\/p>\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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/NAWA_Editions\/status\/1438927367452377097?s=20\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On its website, Nawa publishing house describes itself as an organization that aims to &#8220;promote the human and political sciences born of Islamic heritage&#8221; and &#8220;contribute to the revitalization of these disciplines by studying the Western world and sciences, modern political ideology and doctrines&#8221;.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French interior minister says publishing house is being closed for its anti-Western and separatist line French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday announced the closure of the Muslim-owned publishing house Nawa, describing it as contrary to Western values and having separatist tendencies. Taking to Twitter, Darmanin wrote: &#8220;I have started the termination process due to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,6],"tags":[233,231,229,230,232],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","tag-closure","tag-french","tag-muslim","tag-owned","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}