{"id":31286,"date":"2012-03-10T20:25:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T20:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/muslims_being_used_as_scapegoats_in_french_election_campaigns\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T20:25:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T20:25:52","slug":"muslims_being_used_as_scapegoats_in_french_election_campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31286","title":{"rendered":"(AFB) Muslims being used as &#39;scapegoats&#39; in French election campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims are being used as &#8220;scapegoats&#8221; in the French election campaign in which halal slaughter has become a hot-button issue, the French Council of the Muslim Faith said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came a day after the prime minister, Francois Fillon, urged Muslims and Jews to consider scrapping their &#8220;outdated&#8221; halal and kosher slaughter rules.<\/p>\n<p>The council, asked about Mr Fillon&#8217;s comment on halal, said it &#8220;does not accept that Islam and Muslims be used as scapegoats in this [election] campaign&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/news\/world\/europe\/muslims-being-used-as-scapegoats-in-french-election-campaigns\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims are being used as &#8220;scapegoats&#8221; in the French election campaign in which halal slaughter has become a hot-button issue, the French Council of the Muslim Faith said yesterday. The statement came a day after the prime minister, Francois Fillon,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31286\">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":[39,40,50,42,200,468,426,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-france","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31286","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=31286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}