{"id":39922,"date":"2021-02-24T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/?p=39922"},"modified":"2021-02-24T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:22:02","slug":"limitations-of-religious-freedom-raise-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/limitations-of-religious-freedom-raise-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Limitations of religious freedom raise concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cIn many European countries, religious freedoms \u2013 especially those of Muslim minorities \u2013 become more and more restricted. We watch these set-backs with great concern\u201d, the IGMG\u2019s secretary general Bekir Alta\u015f said. In January, the Danish government drafted a legislation to prohibit religious sermons in languages other than Danish if no translation had been submitted for prior approval.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alta\u015f criticized the increased tendencies to restrict religious freedoms in general and those of Muslims in particular. With the proposed law, the state \u201cfurther invades an area, where it has no business in. Such a law would be a serious interference with religious freedoms and a violation of the constitution\u201d, Alta\u015f said of the measure which he called \u201cexaggerated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe draft is justified with rare cases of hate preachers. In such cases, targeted measures against the person of concern are appropriate. However, here we see how unfounded suspicion is aroused against religious minorities. In France, the government recently passed the \u201cLaw to invigorate Republican Principles\u201d which has seriously limited religious freedoms.  In Austria, similar drafts were presented under the heading of a \u2018fight against terrorism\u2019. For years, Anti-Muslim parties, which question the religious freedoms of Muslims, have been gaining momentum in many European countries. They promote prejudice and create fears, thus making Muslim life in Europe more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concern among Muslim was growing, said Alta\u015f. \u201cWe watch these set-backs with sorrow and appeal to the mainstream parties not to get used by right-wing populists and anti-Muslim extremists. Good policy is sensible, farsighted, and considered. A strong democracy is known by the way minorities are treated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn many European countries, religious freedoms \u2013 especially those of Muslim minorities \u2013 become more and more restricted. We watch these set-backs with great concern\u201d, the IGMG\u2019s secretary general Bekir Alta\u015f said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[23241],"tags":[24771,24770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39925,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922\/revisions\/39925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}