{"id":17564,"date":"2010-01-28T03:27:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_french_panel_recommends_partial_ban_on_islamic_veils\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T03:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:27:21","slug":"rns_french_panel_recommends_partial_ban_on_islamic_veils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17564","title":{"rendered":"RNS: French panel recommends partial ban on Islamic veils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday (Jan. 26), a parliamentary commission delivered a long-awaited report recommending that women be barred from wearing the full veil in public institutions and on public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan panel also recommended that foreigners who wear the full veil be denied French citizenship and residency. But in an indication of the issue&#8217;s sensitivity, the panel did not call for banning the garment from private buildings or public spaces such as streets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scandalous practices are being hidden behind the full veil that go against our history,&#8221; said French Communist deputy Andre Gerin, the commission&#8217;s head, in broadcasted remarks. &#8220;&#8230; To say no to the full veil, we have decided to wage a political battle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=19571\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday (Jan. 26), a parliamentary commission delivered a long-awaited report recommending that women be barred from wearing the full veil in public institutions and on public transportation. The bipartisan panel also recommended that foreigners who wear the full veil<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17564\">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":[39,50,42,200,468,426,114,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-france","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564","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=17564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}