{"id":824,"date":"2006-10-24T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/10\/24\/what_a_veiled_woman_can_do"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:24:30","slug":"what_a_veiled_woman_can_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/10\/24\/what_a_veiled_woman_can_do","title":{"rendered":"What a veiled woman can do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nzingha has <a href=\"http:\/\/nzinghas.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/veil-limited-ability_22.html\">an excellent article<\/a>, <em>ma sha Allah<\/em>, regarding some of the popular perceptions about what women can and can&#39;t do in a veil, in response to a particularly stupid article in the Arab News which claims that the veil &quot;physically impedes a woman from fully interacting with others, chopping vegetables, operating machinery or doing any number of every day- day tasks which require the full use of the five senses&quot;.  The sister lives in Saudi and has seen veiled women doing all these things except chopping vegetables (which she has however seen blind people do).  Long, and pretty comprehensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nzingha has an excellent article, ma sha Allah, regarding some of the popular perceptions about what women can and can&#39;t do in a veil, in response to a particularly stupid article in the Arab&#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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niqab_face_covering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42253,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/42253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}