{"id":460,"date":"2010-06-19T15:54:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T15:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=460"},"modified":"2010-06-19T15:54:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T15:54:43","slug":"thousands-protest-in-kosovo-against-hijab-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/06\/19\/460\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest in Kosovo against hijab ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"kosovo\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/kosovo.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"190\" \/>PRISTINA (Reuters) Around 5,000 people protested in Kosovo on Friday against a government decision to ban pupils from wearing Muslim headscarves (hijab) in public schools.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 90 percent of Kosovo&#8217;s population are Muslims but the former Serbian province, which declared independence in 2008, remains a largely secular country.<br \/>Protesters, who came to the capital from all over the country, urged the government to withdraw its decision and not to &#8220;discriminate against Muslims.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;We will continue the protests until they will allow our daughters to go to school with headscarves,&#8221; said organizer Halil Kastrati.<br \/>Angry protesters with banners that read &#8220;Don&#8217;t use our state against us&#8221; and &#8220;Communism is over&#8221; marched to the ministry of education, which had approved the ban.<br \/>&#8220;This is not a uniform but my religious obligation. I respect my religion but I also want to go to my faculty,&#8221; said student Fitore Abazi.<br \/>Kosovo has so far been recognized by 69 countries, mainly in Western Europe, the United States and a few Muslim countries, but has not become a member of the United Nations. Serbia opposes its independence and has filed a suit to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Arabiya<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRISTINA (Reuters) Around 5,000 people protested in Kosovo on Friday against a government decision to ban pupils from wearing Muslim headscarves (hijab) in public schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thousands protest in Kosovo against hijab ban - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/06\/19\/460\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thousands protest in Kosovo against hijab ban - 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