{"id":1856,"date":"2011-10-09T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T20:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2011-10-09T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T20:32:22","slug":"freedom-in-egypt-but-only-for-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"Freedom in Egypt, but only for Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>From: Islamic War Against the West<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwatw.com\/2011\/10\/09\/christians-fear-islamist-pressure-in-egypt\/\">http:\/\/www.iwatw.com\/2011\/10\/09\/christians-fear-islamist-pressure-in-egypt\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAIRO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On her first day to school, 15-year-old Christian student Ferial Habib was stopped at the doorstep of her new high school with clear instructions: either put on a headscarf or no school this year.<\/p>\n<p>Habib refused. While most Muslim women in Egypt wear the headscarf, Christians do not, and the move by administrators to force a Christian student to don it was unprecedented. For the next two weeks, Habib reported to school in the southern Egyptian village of Sheik Fadl every day in her uniform, without the head covering, only to be turned back by teachers.<\/p>\n<p>One day, Habib heard the school loudspeakers echoing her name and teachers with megaphones leading a number of students in chants of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want Ferial here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the teenager told The Associated Press.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsvine.com\/_news\/2011\/10\/08\/8224222-christians-fear-islamist-pressure-in-egypt\">http:\/\/www.newsvine.com\/_news\/2011\/10\/08\/8224222-christians-fear-islamist-pre&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Islamic War Against the Westhttp:\/\/www.iwatw.com\/2011\/10\/09\/christians-fear-islamist-pressure-in-egypt\/ CAIRO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On her first day to school, 15-year-old Christian student Ferial Habib was stopped at the doorstep of her new high school with clear instructions: either put on a headscarf or no school this year. Habib refused. While most Muslim women in Egypt wear the headscarf, Christians do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}