{"id":379,"date":"2011-04-10T21:29:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T03:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2011-04-10T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T03:29:16","slug":"french-full-veil-ban-goes-into-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/10\/french-full-veil-ban-goes-into-force\/","title":{"rendered":"French full veil ban goes into force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/STI\/STIMEDIA\/image\/20110411\/ST_19754409.jpg\" alt=\"Veil\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FRANCE&#8217;S ban on full face veils, a first in Europe, went into force on Monday, exposing anyone who wears the Muslim niqab or burqa in public to fines of 150 euros (S$271).<\/p>\n<p>A Muslim property dealer, who is urging women to keep wearing the veil if they want to, has urged supporters to go to Notre Dame cathedral in central Paris for a silent prayer during the day, and is also offering to help people pay the fines.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s five-million-strong Muslim minority is Western Europe&#8217;s largest, but fewer than 2,000 women are believed actually to wear a full face veil.<\/p>\n<p>Many Muslim leaders have said they support neither the veil nor the law banning it.<\/p>\n<p>The timing is all the more sensitive after France&#8217;s ruling political party, President Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s UMP, called a debate on the place of Islam in France, a move that some say risked stigmatising a portion of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a guide last week to help implement the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Photo By Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCE&#8217;S ban on full face veils, a first in Europe, went into force on Monday, exposing anyone who wears the Muslim niqab or burqa in public to fines of 150 euros (S$271). A Muslim property dealer, who is urging women to keep wearing the veil if they want to, has urged supporters to go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}