{"id":3330,"date":"2016-05-19T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2016-05-22T01:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T23:56:54","slug":"muslim-woman-poses-for-selfies-next-to-anti-muslim-protesters-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/muslim-woman-poses-for-selfies-next-to-anti-muslim-protesters-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim woman poses for selfies next to anti-Muslim protesters in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6356478f-c8a5-4ba1-9164-ddbbfd0aed84_16x9_788x442.png\" alt=\"6356478f-c8a5-4ba1-9164-ddbbfd0aed84_16x9_788x442\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3331\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A far-right group recently gathered outside of a Muslim Expo in Belgium to protest against what they saw as an event promoting Islamic lifestyle, art and culture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Around 40 member of Vlaams Belang, a right-wing Belgian political party, carried posters that showed their overt rejection to anything Muslim from mosques, scarves and Halal food in the northern city of Antwerp.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the protests did not seem to break the spirit of Zakia Belkhiri, who bravely started a counter-protest of her own.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the young Muslim woman, who was donning her Islamic headscarf, took selfies next to the protesters, flashing a peace sign and a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Belkhiri shared the pictures on her Twitter account and to her surprise, it went viral.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Quand Zakia Belkhiri, 22 ans, rejoint les rangs d&#39;une manifestation islamophobe en Belgique. La sista m&#39;a tueR. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f062WYEGHQ\">pic.twitter.com\/f062WYEGHQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sihame Assbague (@s_assbague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/s_assbague\/status\/732565958024388608\">May 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A far-right group recently gathered outside of a Muslim Expo in Belgium to protest against what they saw as an event promoting Islamic lifestyle, art and culture. Around 40 member of Vlaams Belang, a right-wing Belgian political party, carried posters that showed their overt rejection to anything Muslim from mosques, scarves and Halal food in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[425,426,203],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","tag-anti-muslim","tag-belgium","tag-protests"],"views":955,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}