{"id":1613,"date":"2004-12-18T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/12\/18\/register_of_american_muslims_from_al-muhajabah"},"modified":"2004-12-18T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2004-12-18T11:12:02","slug":"register_of_american_muslims_from_al-muhajabah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/12\/18\/register_of_american_muslims_from_al-muhajabah","title":{"rendered":"Register of American Muslims?! (from Al-Muhajabah)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This should, perhaps, be a lesson to those who asked us to declare our religion in the 2001 UK census, just so that an accurate figure for the numbers of British Muslims could be reached.  I&#8217;m not writing to the government to tell them I&#8217;m Muslim, thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, in a US context, what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muhajabah.com\/islamicblog\/archives\/veiled4allah\/010071.php\">Al-Muhajabah is alluding to<\/a> is plainly unconstitutional:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(quote:) About 27 percent of respondents said that all Muslim Americans should be required to register their location with the federal government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(al-M:) If you believe that I need to register my location with the government because of my religion, you can go to hell. This is America not a f***ing police state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should, perhaps, be a lesson to those who asked us to declare our religion in the 2001 UK census, just so that an accurate figure for the numbers of British Muslims could be&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-q1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}