{"id":16395,"date":"2009-11-30T01:36:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian-muslim_rift_widens_over_kenyas_draft_law\/"},"modified":"2009-11-30T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T01:36:27","slug":"christian-muslim_rift_widens_over_kenyas_draft_law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16395","title":{"rendered":"Christian-Muslim rift widens over Kenya&#39;s draft law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The publication of a draft constitution for Kenya, recognising the presence of Muslim civil courts known as the Kadhi courts, has once again widened the Christian-Muslim split in the East African nation.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan Church leaders have dismissed the creation of the Kadhi Courts, as currently proposed in the draft constitution, as a ploy to &#8220;elevate one religion over the other,&#8221; while the Islamic clerics ha ve warned that they would mobilise the Muslim community to reject a new draft that omits the Kadhi courts.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyans have been discussing the prospect of a new constitution. The last attempt to have a constitution, in November 2005, ended with a majority vote rejecting the draft constitution, which proposed to create the office of the Chief Kadhi, to enjoy similar constitutional powers as the Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afriquejet.com\/news\/africa-news\/kenya:-christian-muslim-rift-widens-over-kenya%27s-draft-law-2009112939159.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The publication of a draft constitution for Kenya, recognising the presence of Muslim civil courts known as the Kadhi courts, has once again widened the Christian-Muslim split in the East African nation. Kenyan Church leaders have dismissed the creation of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16395\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,42,202,400,74,161,426,329,114,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-church-of-kenya","category-anglican-provinces","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-kenya","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}