{"id":54472,"date":"2018-08-18T02:47:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/18\/muslim-couple-denied-swiss-citizenship-over-handshake-refusal\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T02:47:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T00:47:50","slug":"muslim-couple-denied-swiss-citizenship-over-handshake-refusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=54472","title":{"rendered":"Muslim couple denied Swiss citizenship over handshake refusal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple also \u2018showed great difficulty in answering questions asked by people of the opposite sex\u2019The Swiss city of Lausanne has blocked a Muslim couple\u2019s bid to become Swiss nationals over their refusal to shake hands with members of the opposite sex.The municipality said it refused to grant the couple\u2019s citizenship application over their lack of respect for gender equality, Lausanne mayor Gregoire Junod said. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/18\/muslim-couple-denied-swiss-citizenship-over-handshake-refusal\" target=\"_blank\">Muslim couple denied Swiss citizenship over handshake refusal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple also \u2018showed great difficulty in answering questions asked by people of the opposite sex\u2019The Swiss city of Lausanne has blocked a Muslim couple\u2019s bid to become Swiss nationals over their refusal to shake hands with members of the opposite sex.The municipality said it refused to grant the couple\u2019s citizenship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}