{"id":353744,"date":"2018-03-25T02:48:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T01:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/norway-seeks-to-ban-full-face-veil-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2018-03-25T02:48:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T01:48:57","slug":"norway-seeks-to-ban-full-face-veil-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/norway-seeks-to-ban-full-face-veil-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Seeks to Ban Full-Face Veil in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Norway wants to ban full-face Muslim veils in schools and universities while teaching is taking place, arguing the garments prevent good communication between students and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, announced Friday, is a watered-down version of the government\u2019s original proposal from last June, when it suggested a general ban on face-covering veils in educational institutions. The government made the changes in light of criticism it received during the consultation period.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Norway seeks to ban full-face veil in schools <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PTWgQpEanK\">https:\/\/t.co\/PTWgQpEanK<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Defend Europa (@DefendEvropa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefendEvropa\/status\/977286368740159489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPupils, students and teachers must be able to see each other\u2019s faces,\u201d said Iselin Nyb\u00f8, Norway\u2019s minister for research and higher education. \u201cWe believe that we have found a good balance between ensuring a good learning environment and the individual\u2019s freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposed law would apply to students and teachers and would also include school trips and educational sessions meant to help with homework.<\/p>\n<p>It would also apply to newly arrived migrants participating in introductory programs or other kinds of educational training.<\/p>\n<p>The only exception are kindergartens, where employees would be banned from wearing the garment during all working hours. The proposed rules would not apply to the wearing of headscarves.<\/p>\n<p>Oslo is following in the footsteps of European countries such as France, Belgium and the Netherlands, which imposed restrictions on wearing burqas and niqabs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/norway-seeks-to-ban-full-face-veil-in-schools\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway wants to ban full-face Muslim veils in schools and universities while teaching is taking place, arguing the garments prevent good communication between students and teachers. The bill, announced Friday, is a watered-down version of the government\u2019s original proposal from last June, when it suggested a general ban on face-covering veils in educational institutions. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}