{"id":92688,"date":"2020-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/10754\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T21:00:00","slug":"10754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/10754","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Girl Protests Hijab-Wearing Ban in Swedish City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palestinian girl Maya Abu AlAla has worn Hijab (Islamic veil) as a protest move against Swedish city of Skurup after it approved a bill banning “all forms of Muslim headgear” in primary schools and preschools.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ban – which was passed in December – affects Muslim women who wear headscarves, burqas, and niqabs.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Backed by liberal-conservative Moderates and the local Skurup party, the ban was initiated and passed through the municipal government in a vote of 22 positive to 19.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The motion has been widely criticized among the local community and around 200 people gathered to protest it outside the town hall on Monday. However, they were met with counter-protests where people chanted hateful slogans including “Close Islam” and other phrases like “Freedom for Swedes.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Muslim communities amount to 8.1 percent of Sweden’s total population. Around 800,000 people of the faith call the country their home, according to Pew Research Center.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Sweden does not enforce a headscarf ban on a national level, some municipalities across the country have been taking it upon themselves to impose them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palestinian girl Maya Abu AlAla has worn Hijab (Islamic veil) as a protest move against Swedish city of Skurup after it approved a bill banning “all forms of Muslim headgear” in primary schools and preschools. The ban – which was passed in December – affects Muslim women who wear headscarves, burqas, and niqabs.\u00c2\u00a0 Backed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}