{"id":303,"date":"2015-01-12T23:31:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T23:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/12\/china-has-just-banned-the-burqa-in-its-biggest\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:44","slug":"china-has-just-banned-the-burqa-in-its-biggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/01\/12\/china-has-just-banned-the-burqa-in-its-biggest\/","title":{"rendered":"China has just banned the burqa in its biggest Muslim city – Quartz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The state-run news agency Xinhua justified the burqa ban by pointing out that burqas are also banned in France…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

China has just banned the burqa in its biggest Muslim city – Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The state-run news agency Xinhua justified the burqa ban by pointing out that burqas are also banned in France… China has just banned the burqa in its biggest Muslim city – Quartz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":369,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/12\/02\/pun-filled-subversion-in-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":303,"position":0},"title":"Pun-filled subversion in China","author":"aslam","date":"December 2, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"\u2026is now banned in order to protect the sanctity of the Chinese language. 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