{"id":35325,"date":"2012-10-27T02:40:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T02:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_islam_comes_to_the_classroom_in_russias_chechnya\/"},"modified":"2012-10-27T02:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T02:40:05","slug":"reuters_islam_comes_to_the_classroom_in_russias_chechnya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35325","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Islam comes to the classroom in Russia&#39;s Chechnya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At school No. 20 in Russia&#8217;s troubled region of Chechnya, boys sit on one side of the classroom and girls in headscarves on the other. All are silent as the new teacher rises to speak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you say your morning prayers?&#8221; Islam Dzhabrailov, 21, asks, wearing a green prayer cap and a plain tunic, religious dress that is increasingly popular in the mountainous province in southern Russia&#8217;s mostly Muslim Caucasus region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just as important as doing your homework,&#8221; he tells the students aged 14-15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/10\/22\/us-russia-chechnya-islam-idUSBRE89L0BQ20121022\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At school No. 20 in Russia&#8217;s troubled region of Chechnya, boys sit on one side of the classroom and girls in headscarves on the other. All are silent as the new teacher rises to speak. &#8220;Do you say your morning<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35325\">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":[39,50,42,111,200,426,155,108,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-education","category-europe","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35325","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=35325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}