{"id":1894,"date":"2007-02-06T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2007-02-06T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T01:14:08","slug":"fleeing-christianity-for-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"Fleeing Christianity for Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting example of the way the problem is with all religions, not just one of them: according to a <a href = \"http:\/\/www.womensenews.org\/article.cfm\/dyn\/aid\/3051\">piece on Women&#8217;s eNews<\/a>, Coptic women in Egypt are fleeing to Islam, in the embrace of which they can find more freedom than in Christianity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A key reason for the so-called &#8216;kidnappings&#8217; is that Coptic women have no right to divorce,&#8221; said Nahed Abul Komsan, head of the Cairo-based Egyptian Center for Women&#8217;s Rights, which is the leading women&#8217;s rights group in the country.<br \/>\n&#8220;This means that if their parents tell them they are going to marry their cousin, they have to submit to this and have no choice . . . So they turn to Islam, not because of a spiritual belief in the religion but because it gives them more of an opportunity to choose their life&#8217;s path,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting example of the way the problem is with all religions, not just one of them: according to a piece on Women&#8217;s eNews, Coptic women in Egypt are fleeing to Islam, in the embrace of which they can find more freedom than in Christianity: &#8220;A key reason for the so-called &#8216;kidnappings&#8217; is that Coptic women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}