{"id":14169,"date":"2017-08-17T12:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T07:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14169"},"modified":"2017-08-17T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T07:57:06","slug":"australian-senator-wearing-burqa-draws-strong-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14169","title":{"rendered":"Australian senator wearing burqa draws strong criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CANBERRA, Aug 17 (TNS):<\/strong> Australian senator and leader of the right-wing One Nation party, Pauline Hanson, wore the burqa to the Senate chamber for the daily questioning time session on Thursday, media reported<\/p>\n<p>According to the daily, Hanson&#8217;s move \u2014 meant to push for a ban on the burqa \u2014 caused commotion in the chamber and drew strong criticism from Australian attorney general George Brandis who issued a warning that the action may be offensive to the &#8220;religious sensibilities of other Australians&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Hanson, I\u2019m not going to pretend to ignore the stunt that you have tried to pull today by arriving in the chamber dressed in a burqa when we all know you are not an adherent of the Islamic faith,&#8221; said Brandis in a video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo ridicule that community, to drive it into a corner, to mock its religious garments, is an appalling thing to do and I would ask you to reflect on your behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have about half a million Australians in this country of the Islamic faith, and the vast majority of them are law abiding, good Australians, and Senator Hanson, it [burqa] is absolutely consistent with being a good law abiding Australian and a strict, adherent, Muslim,&#8221; Brandis was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general made clear to the right-wing leader that there is no intention of banning the burqa as his remarks drew applause from those present in the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson was called a &#8220;threat to national security&#8221; and a &#8220;disgrace&#8221; by Senator Sam Dastyari who\u00a0is a non-practicing Muslim of Iranian heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANBERRA, Aug 17 (TNS): Australian senator and leader of the right-wing One Nation party, Pauline Hanson, wore the burqa to the Senate chamber for the daily questioning time session on Thursday, media reported According to the daily, Hanson&#8217;s move \u2014 meant to push for a ban on the burqa \u2014 caused commotion in the chamber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,19],"tags":[767,733],"class_list":["post-14169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canberra","category-world","tag-canberra","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14171,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions\/14171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}