{"id":494197,"date":"2010-03-31T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12741"},"modified":"2010-03-31T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:30:26","slug":"belgian-committee-backs-banning-islamic-face-veil-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/494197","title":{"rendered":"Belgian committee backs banning Islamic face veil in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12742\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 235px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12742\" title=\"belgian hijab\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/03\/belgian-hijab-225x145-custom.jpg\" alt=\"belgian hijab\" width=\"225\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muslim women protest against a ban on headscarves in some schools, 4 Feb 2004\/Yves Herman <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Belgian  parliamentary committee voted Wednesday to ban the full Islamic face  veil, a move that, if ratified, could make Belgium the first country to  enforce such a ban.<\/p>\n<p>The lower house of parliament will vote on  the bill on April 22 and it could enter into law in June or July.<\/p>\n<p>Some lawmakers in France, which has the  largest Muslim population in Europe, have called for full Islamic veils  to be banned, although a top advisory board said Tuesday that this would  carry serious constitutional risks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12743\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 165px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12743\" title=\"france veil\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/03\/france-veil-155x212-custom.jpg\" alt=\"france veil\" width=\"155\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niqab-wearing French woman protests against ban on headscarves 17 Jan 2004\/stringer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The  draft law proposes to criminalize wearing clothing that covers all or  part of the face, including the facial veil known as the niqab and the  full outer garment, or burqa, widely worn in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The French-speaking liberals, who have  proposed the law, argue an inability to identify people who have hidden  their faces presents a security risk and that the veil was a &#8220;walking  prison&#8221; for women.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim women protest against a ban on headscarves in some schools, 4 Feb 2004\/Yves Herman A Belgian parliamentary committee voted Wednesday to ban the full Islamic face veil, a move that, if ratified, could make Belgium the first country to enforce such a ban. The lower house of parliament will vote on the bill on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}