{"id":57530,"date":"2017-02-23T21:31:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_bavaria_pushes_ahead_with_burqa_ban_as_elections_loom\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T21:31:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:31:01","slug":"reuters_bavaria_pushes_ahead_with_burqa_ban_as_elections_loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57530","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Bavaria pushes ahead with burqa ban as elections loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bavaria will ban the full-face veil in schools, universities, government workplaces and polling stations, the southern German state said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes seven months before a federal election where immigration will be a prominent issue and the Bavarian conservatives that govern the region, the sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s, are worried about losing votes to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Communication happens not only via language but also via looks, facial expressions and gestures,&#8221; Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said after the regional government agreed a draft law to ban the full-face veil for civil servants and in public places where there are concerns for public safety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/religion-burqa-germany-bavaria-idUSKBN16109O\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bavaria will ban the full-face veil in schools, universities, government workplaces and polling stations, the southern German state said on Tuesday. The move comes seven months before a federal election where immigration will be a prominent issue and the Bavarian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57530\">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":[39,40,50,42,175,168,200,478,426,114,155,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-germany","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57530","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=57530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}