{"id":16123,"date":"2012-04-02T14:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16123"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:41:17","slug":"rowan-williams-on-how-to-assert-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-on-how-to-assert-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams on how to assert yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wear a veil!<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for his new job as Master of Magdalene College Cambridge, Rowan Williams continues to hone his prodigious talent for saying daft things by declaring that wearing a veil helps Muslim women assert themselves. As everyone knows, Muslim men delight in having <em>assertive <\/em>wives; that\u2019s why they force them to wear a veil.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/society\/religion\/46144\/rowan-williams-says-veil-helps-muslim-women-assert-themselves\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE OUTGOING Archbishop of Canterbury has shown he will not leave quietly after he reopened the debate over the veil by insisting that the controversial garment can help Muslim women &#8220;assert themselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rowan Williams has questioned the view that women hide behind their veils and warned against &#8220;what we sometimes think of wrongly as stereotypes&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wear a veil! In preparation for his new job as Master of Magdalene College Cambridge, Rowan Williams continues to hone his prodigious talent for saying daft things by declaring that wearing a veil helps Muslim women assert themselves. As everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-on-how-to-assert-yourself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2178,2241,1598],"class_list":["post-16123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-islam","tag-rowan-williams","tag-veils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}