{"id":6550,"date":"2017-10-02T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=6550"},"modified":"2017-10-02T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T10:07:39","slug":"austrias-burqa-ban-law-comes-into-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/austrias-burqa-ban-law-comes-into-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria\u2019s Burqa Ban law comes into force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A law that forbids any kind of full- face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, has come into force in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on Sunday, wearing a ski mask off the slopes, a surgical mask outside hospitals and party masks in public is prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>The law, popularly known as the \u201cBurqa Ban,\u201d is mostly seen as a directed at the dress worn by some ultra- conservative Muslim women.<\/p>\n<p>Violations carry a possible fine of nearly $180. Police are authorised to use force if people resist showing their faces.<\/p>\n<p>Only a small number of Muslim women in Austria wear full-face veils, but they have become a target for right-wing groups and political parties.<\/p>\n<p>France and Belgium have similar laws. The nationalist Alternative for Germany party is calling for one there, too.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A law that forbids any kind of full- face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, has come into force in Austria. Starting on Sunday, wearing a ski mask off the slopes, a surgical mask outside hospitals and party masks in public is prohibited. The law, popularly known as the \u201cBurqa Ban,\u201d [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6552,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions\/6552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}