{"id":46979,"date":"2014-11-20T22:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_austrian_bill_would_ban_foreign_funding_for_mosques_imams\/"},"modified":"2014-11-20T22:30:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:30:48","slug":"rns_austrian_bill_would_ban_foreign_funding_for_mosques_imams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46979","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Austrian bill would ban foreign funding for mosques, imams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austria\u2019s Muslim community is incensed over the government\u2019s plans to amend the country\u2019s century-old law on Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The new bill, championed by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration Sebastian Kurz, forbids foreign funding of mosque construction or of imams working in the country and requires a unified German-language translation of the Quran.<br \/>\nThe government argues the legislation, which Parliament will vote on this month, will help combat Islamic radicalism. Muslim groups and civic activists say it flouts the principle of equality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/11\/20\/austrian-bill-ban-foreign-funding-mosques-imams\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria\u2019s Muslim community is incensed over the government\u2019s plans to amend the country\u2019s century-old law on Islam. The new bill, championed by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration Sebastian Kurz, forbids foreign funding of mosque construction or of imams working<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46979\">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":[39,50,42,459,200,426,114,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-austria","category-europe","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\/46979","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=46979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}