{"id":5741,"date":"2020-08-17T19:36:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanep.gravitywebsolutionsgh.com\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2021-03-21T21:06:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T21:06:59","slug":"policy-brief-on-the-gambia-pronouncement-of-the-gambia-as-an-islamic-state-perceptions-and-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/policy-brief-on-the-gambia-pronouncement-of-the-gambia-as-an-islamic-state-perceptions-and-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Brief on The Gambia: &#8211; PRONOUNCEMENT OF THE GAMBIA AS AN ISLAMIC STATE: PERCEPTIONS AND REALITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 11 2015, President Yahya Jammeh declared The Gambia as an &#8216;Islamic State&#8217; during his tour of Brufut, a community, 20km from Banjul. He stressed that the rights of the Christian minority and other religions will be respected while women would not be held to any particular dress code. However, a directive from the presidency on January 4 2016 exhorted women to wear head ties, a dress code in conformity to Islamic teachings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/files\/2016\/mar\/pb_gambia_mar_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download file here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 11 2015, President Yahya Jammeh declared The Gambia as an &#8216;Islamic State&#8217; during his tour of Brufut, a community, 20km from Banjul. He stressed that the rights of the Christian minority and other religions will be respected while women would not be held to any particular dress code. However, a directive from the presidency on January 4 2016 exhorted women to wear head ties, a dress code in conformity to Islamic teachings. Download file here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}