{"id":703,"date":"2016-08-13T06:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T06:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=703"},"modified":"2016-08-13T06:25:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T06:25:42","slug":"no-burkhas-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/no-burkhas-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"No burkhas @ Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits worn by some Muslim women from its beaches, citing security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The ban on so-called burkinis, at the height of the French Riviera vacation season, comes as the country remains on edge after deadly ISIS terrorist attacks on nearby Nice and on a Catholic church in northwest France.<\/p>\n<p>Cannes Mayor David Lisnard issued an ordinance forbidding beachwear that doesn&#8217;t respect &#8220;good morals and secularism,&#8221; noting that swimwear &#8220;manifesting religious affiliation in an ostentatious way, while France and its religious sites are currently the target of terrorist attacks, could create risks of trouble to public order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A City Hall official said the ordinance, in effect for August, could apply to burkini-style swimsuits. Violators risk a 38 euro fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits worn by some Muslim women from its beaches, citing security concerns. The ban on so-called burkinis, at the height of the French Riviera vacation season, comes as the country remains on edge after deadly ISIS terrorist attacks on nearby Nice and on a Catholic church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[791,793,789,792,790,788,794],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-burkinis","tag-catholic-church","tag-french-resort","tag-french-riviera-vacation","tag-muslim-women","tag-no-burkhas-cannes","tag-northwest-france"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}