{"id":1153,"date":"2013-09-11T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2013-09-11T02:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T02:14:00","slug":"as-long-as-these-things-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2013\/09\/11\/as-long-as-these-things-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"As Long As These Things Happen&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the hijab will remain more of a political statement than a religious one.<BR><\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/09\/10\/woman-sudan-hijab-flogging_n_3894950.html\" target=\"_blank\">a woman in Sudan who refuses to wear hijab faces flogging<\/a>, her civil liberties are in peril.<BR><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll wager that most American Muslims &#8212; men and women &#8212; agree with Abdullah Antepli, a Muslim chaplain at Duke University, who notes that this woman&#8217;s case is less about Sharia law than it is of an autocratic society (such as Sudan), where &#8220;law is only applied to the poor and most vulnerable.&#8221;<BR><\/p>\n<p>After all, in Islam, there is no coercion&#8230;.<BR><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the hijab will remain more of a political statement than a religious one. 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