{"id":18208,"date":"2019-06-13T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T08:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=18208"},"modified":"2019-06-13T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T08:22:17","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-have-halal-nightclub-in-jeddah-soon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=18208","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to have \u2018Halal nightclub\u2019 in Jeddah soon: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saudi Arabia is soon going to have it\u2019s first  \u2018halal nightclub\u2019 reports revealed on Wednesday, sparking online jokes and anger from conservatives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to a report by  Alaraby, Dubai and Beirut nightclub brand White said this week that a new branch would open its doors in the coastal city of Jeddah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Those in favour of the latest venue, which will only serve non-alcoholic cocktails, tweeted using the Arabic-language hashtag #JeddahDisco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Opponents of the move expressed their frustration under the rival hashtag meaning: \u201cI don\u2019t accept forbidden acts on Jeddah beach\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The CEO of the venue  said that the club was a high-end cafe and lounge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Saudi market will be great, because the local community goes out a lot. You have people in the country who go out a lot,\u201d Tony Habre was quoted as saying by Arabianbusiness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The news has divided social media users in the kingdom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The nightclub opening comes as authorities lead a much-trumpeted drive to modernise the conservative kingdom that has included giving women the right to drive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The kingdom at the meantime faces criticism over the detention and ongoing trials of several women activists, and an imposed war on Yemen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It also faced severe backlash in October after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was blamed for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by a hit-squad in the kingdom\u2019s Turkey-based consulate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hashtag #JeddahDisco is trending as people are tweeting their reactions on the move<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia is soon going to have it\u2019s first \u2018halal nightclub\u2019 reports revealed on Wednesday, sparking online jokes and anger from conservatives. According to a report by Alaraby, Dubai and Beirut nightclub brand White said this week that a new branch would open its doors in the coastal city of Jeddah. Those in favour of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}