{"id":9384,"date":"2010-12-09T17:42:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9384"},"modified":"2010-12-09T17:42:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:42:59","slug":"spanish-city-bans-face-covering-islamic-veils-9122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/spanish-city-bans-face-covering-islamic-veils-9122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish city bans Islamic veils in public buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9385\" title=\"islamic-veills\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/islamic-veills-280x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/islamic-veills-280x167.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/islamic-veills.jpg 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><strong>Spanish city bans face covering \u0130slamic-veills in public buildings.\u00a0 Lleida, located in north-eastern region of Catalonia, approved legislation in May but procedural issues delayed its implementation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish city of Lleida has became the first in the country to implement a ban on the wearing of face-covering Islamic veils in municipal buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Lleida, in the north-eastern region of Catalonia, approved the legislation in May but procedural issues delayed its implementation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel proud that Lleida is the first city in Spain to regulate against something that is discriminatory against women,&#8221; the mayor, Angel Ros, told state-run radio.<\/p>\n<p>The gesture is largely symbolic because only about 3% of Lleida&#8217;s population is Muslim and only a handful wear body-covering burqas or face-covering niqabs.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has a population of 47 million, of which around 1 million are Muslim. Most live in Catalonia and the southern region of Andalucia, but burqas are rarely seen in public.<\/p>\n<p>Other towns and cities including the Catalan capital, Barcelona, have taken similar steps \u2013 but bans are yet to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish government is considering including the ban in a future law covering a variety of religious issues.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 7)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish city bans face covering \u0130slamic-veills in public buildings.  Lleida, located in north-eastern region of Catalonia, approved legislation in May but procedural issues delayed its implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":9385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[11097,13376,11602,13377,13375],"class_list":["post-9384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-politics","tag-catalonia","tag-face-covering-islamic-veills","tag-lleida","tag-public-buildings","tag-spanich-ciyt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}