{"id":1617,"date":"2010-07-20T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2010-07-20T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T06:16:09","slug":"ban-on-full-face-veil-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Ban on full-face veil spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-medium wp-image-1618\" style=\"width:300px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Niqab-full-face-veil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Niqab-full-face-veil-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Niqab, full-face veil\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Niqab, full-face veil<\/div>\r\n<\/div>This week, Syria has banned the wearing of a full-face veil at university campuses as the practice runs counter to the academic values and traditions of Syrian universities.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Egypt barred female students from wearing the full-face veil.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, France&#8217;s lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public.  The Senate must ratify it in September to become law.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium is at a similar stage of passing a bill to ban clothing that hides a person&#8217;s identity in public places, although it does not specifically refer to the full-face Islamic veil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niqab, full-face veil This week, Syria has banned the wearing of a full-face veil at university campuses as the practice runs counter to the academic values and traditions of Syrian universities. In 2009, Egypt barred female students from wearing the full-face veil. Earlier this month, France&#8217;s lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a bill that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}