{"id":62173,"date":"2024-07-17T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=62173"},"modified":"2024-07-17T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T10:54:04","slug":"france-faces-backlash-over-hijab-ban-for-athletes-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/17\/france-faces-backlash-over-hijab-ban-for-athletes-at-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"France faces backlash over hijab ban for athletes at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62060\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/French-Olympics-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/French-Olympics-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/French-Olympics-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/French-Olympics.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rights groups have accused\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/france\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">France<\/a>\u00a0of &#8216;discriminatory hypocrisy&#8217; for its refusal to allow its athletes to wear the hijab during their participation at the Paris\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Olympics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/sport\/other\/france-faces-backlash-over-hijab-ban-for-athletes-at-olympics\/ar-BB1q2P57?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=7670a0a5db094818b851a456a1dd59d4&amp;ei=24\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Rights groups have accused\u00a0France\u00a0of &#8216;discriminatory hypocrisy&#8217; for its refusal to allow its athletes to wear the hijab during their participation at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/France-Olympic-hijab-ban.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62175,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62173\/revisions\/62175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}