{"id":58359,"date":"2022-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/07\/12\/headscarves-woman-assaulted-in-berlin-others-racially-abused\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:00:00","slug":"headscarves-woman-assaulted-in-berlin-others-racially-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2022\/07\/12\/headscarves-woman-assaulted-in-berlin-others-racially-abused\/","title":{"rendered":"Headscarves woman assaulted in Berlin, others racially abused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another incident of anti-Muslim violence in Germany, a woman wearing a headscarf was physically attacked in the capital Berlin, local media reported Saturday<\/p>\n<p>According to the daily Der Tagesspiegel, a 37-year-old attacker tore off the 39-year-old victim&#39;s head covering before hitting her head and upper body.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place at a restaurant in the Weissensee district, the daily added.<\/p>\n<p>The daily also reported another racist attack in Berlin&#39;s Prenzlauer Berg district earlier Friday where a 52-year-old man racially insulted two women.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker was arrested and taken to a clinic for abnormal behavior before being released, the daily said.<\/p>\n<p>Although Germany&#39;s Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, Muslims, especially women wearing headscarves, often face discriminatory practices in education and the labor market.<\/p>\n<p>The country has witnessed growing racism and Islamophobia in recent years, fueled by the propaganda of neo-Nazi groups and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, a country of over 83 million people, has the second-largest Muslim population in Western Europe after France. Among the country&#39;s nearly 5.3 million Muslims, of which 3 million are of Turkish origin.\/aa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another incident of anti-Muslim violence in Germany, a woman wearing a headscarf was physically attacked in the capital Berlin, local media reported Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}