{"id":8779,"date":"2013-10-05T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2013-10-05T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T15:56:48","slug":"religious-freedom-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/religious-freedom-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Religious Freedom&#8217; (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\": http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2442317\/Muslim-pupils-14-banned-classroom-refusing-shave-beards-claiming-religion-forbids-it.html#ixzz2grYxkbUs \">The Daily Mail<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two teenage Muslim pupils have been put into &#8216;isolation&#8217; and banned from lessons after refusing to shave off their beards for religious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, in Accrington, Lancashire, has said the two 14-year-olds are in breach of the dress code, which bans beards as well as false nails, fake tan, make-up, dyed hair and inappropriate jewellery.<\/p>\n<p>But the boys&#8217; families have said they are suffering discrimination because beards are a symbol of faith and their religion forbids them to shave&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail: Two teenage Muslim pupils have been put into &#8216;isolation&#8217; and banned from lessons after refusing to shave off their beards for religious reasons. Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, in Accrington, Lancashire, has said the two 14-year-olds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/religious-freedom-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[746],"tags":[78,370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8798,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions\/8798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}