{"id":1765,"date":"2009-04-07T19:35:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T18:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2009\/04\/07\/women_respond_to_melville"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:34:55","slug":"women_respond_to_melville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/04\/07\/women_respond_to_melville","title":{"rendered":"Women respond to Melville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/04\/05\/is_the_hijab_just_a_waste_of_t\">rant<\/a> about Kate Melville&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/apr\/04\/hijab-niqab-islam-muslims\">letter<\/a> in last Saturday&#39;s Guardian, two women (one Muslim, one probably not) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2009\/apr\/07\/letters-hijab-islam-women\">respond<\/a> in today&#39;s paper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKate Melville weeps for the hijab- and niqab-wearing Muslim women who have no freedom of movement and step out into traffic because they can&#39;t hear what&#39;s going on around them. Presumably she weeps equally for the legions of women tottering around the streets in four-inch stiletto heels, pencil skirts and with headphones clamped to their ears?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(And that&#39;s not even the Muslim response.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my rant about Kate Melville&#39;s letter in last Saturday&#39;s Guardian, two women (one Muslim, one probably not) respond in today&#39;s paper: Kate Melville weeps for the hijab- and niqab-wearing Muslim women who have&#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":[62,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sir","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-st","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41675,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/41675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}