{"id":525843,"date":"2010-04-13T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12899"},"modified":"2010-04-13T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:04:22","slug":"headscarf-row-re-opens-old-wounds-for-algerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525843","title":{"rendered":"Headscarf row re-opens old wounds for Algerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12900\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 359px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12900\" title=\"algeria women\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/04\/algeria-women-349x253-custom.jpg\" alt=\"algeria women\" width=\"349\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Algerian women walk past an election poster of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Batna, 500 km (311 miles) east of Algiers, March 19, 2009\/Louafi Larbi <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A decision by  Algeria&#8217;s government that women should pose for passport photographs  without their Islamic headscarves has re-opened wounds still raw after  nearly two decades of Islamist militant violence.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria&#8217;s secular-minded government says  that as part of the introduction of new biometric passports, all women  should be photographed without the veil, a requirement that has angered  the country&#8217;s influential religious traditionalists.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We are in an Islamic country and the state  should not be issuing laws that contradict our religion,&#8221; <\/em>said  Abderahmane Chibane, the head of the Muslim Ulema Association which  groups leading Islamic scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria  is emerging from a conflict that broke out after the military backed  government in 1992 scrapped legislative elections that a radical  Islamist party was poised to win.\u00a0 However, analysts say  the row over passports risks damaging a truce between the government  and the Islamists that has helped reduce the violence and usher in a  period of relative stability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE63C2ZE20100413\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/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>Algerian women walk past an election poster of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Batna, 500 km (311 miles) east of Algiers, March 19, 2009\/Louafi Larbi A decision by Algeria&#8217;s government that women should pose for passport photographs without their Islamic headscarves has re-opened wounds still raw after nearly two decades of Islamist militant violence. Algeria&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525843","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\/6746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}