{"id":649,"date":"2009-07-27T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/27\/gazas-top-judge-lawyers-to-wear-muslim-headscarf\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T19:14:08","slug":"gazas-top-judge-lawyers-to-wear-muslim-headscarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/27\/gazas-top-judge-lawyers-to-wear-muslim-headscarf\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;s top judge: Lawyers to wear Muslim headscarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hn-byline\">\n(AP)<br \/>\n\u2013<br \/>\n<span class=\"hn-date\">7 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p>GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip \u2014 Gaza&#8217;s top judge says he has ordered female<br \/>\nlawyers to wear Muslim headscarves when they appear in court.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nmove is the latest sign that Gaza&#8217;s Islamic militant rulers are<br \/>\nincreasingly imposing on residents of the coastal strip their strict<br \/>\ninterpretation of Islamic law.<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court chief justice<br \/>\nAbdul-Raouf Halabi says he issued his headscarves order to conform with<br \/>\nIslamic law, which says it&#8217;s forbidden for a woman to show her hair in<br \/>\npublic.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas seized power in Gaza in June 2007 and vowed never<br \/>\nto force its conservative values on others. But it has taken a series<br \/>\nof steps in recent months that appear to be aimed at forcing residents<br \/>\nto accept its Islamic-oriented social agenda.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=article) --><\/p>\n<p><span>Copyright \u00a9  2009   The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"rn-section\">\n<h4 id=\"rn-header\">Related articles<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hqaTuEWhR59MZC5tFr-x8sEKeCMQD99M1MMO2\">Gaza&#8217;s top judge: Lawyers to wear Muslim headscarf<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span class=\"source\">The Associated Press<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n7 hours ago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamonline.net\/servlet\/Satellite?c=Article_C&amp;cid=1248187383143&amp;pagename=Zone-English-Youth%2FYTELayout\">Life Without Borders<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span class=\"source\">Islam Online<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n4 hours ago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Content\/World\/News\/1073\/a2d58f41fa2c4eb1bbee7c260cb8ecee\/26-07-2009%2001-07\/Gaza_tunnel_collapses\">Gaza tunnel collapses<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span class=\"source\">News24.com<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n5 hours ago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/story?ncl=dt217emLcoeEPKMTdL3Hp_qB88i6M&amp;hl=en-US&amp;ned=us\">More coverage<br \/>\n(22) \u00bb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2013 7 hours ago GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip \u2014 Gaza&#8217;s top judge says he has ordered female lawyers to wear Muslim headscarves when they appear in court. The move is the latest sign that Gaza&#8217;s Islamic militant rulers are increasingly imposing on residents of the coastal strip their strict interpretation of Islamic law. Supreme&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/27\/gazas-top-judge-lawyers-to-wear-muslim-headscarf\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}