{"id":348206,"date":"2021-10-14T05:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/14\/australian-islamic-body-cancels-forum-with-taliban-officials-after-heavy-criticism-from-afghan-community"},"modified":"2021-10-14T05:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:11:53","slug":"australian-islamic-body-cancels-forum-with-taliban-officials-after-heavy-criticism-from-afghan-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/14\/australian-islamic-body-cancels-forum-with-taliban-officials-after-heavy-criticism-from-afghan-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Islamic body cancels forum with Taliban officials after heavy criticism from Afghan community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Federation of Islamic Councils says event due to feature two senior Taliban representatives was not intended to \u2018legitimise any group\u2019<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (Afic) has cancelled its planned online forum that was due to include two senior Taliban representatives, after it faced heavy criticism from within the Muslim and Afghan communities.<\/p><p>\u201cI genuinely thought it was a joke,\u201d said Mariam Veiszadeh, a lawyer and community rights advocate from the Afghan-Australian community.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/14\/australian-islamic-body-cancels-forum-with-taliban-officials-after-heavy-criticism-from-afghan-community\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/14\/australian-islamic-body-cancels-forum-with-taliban-officials-after-heavy-criticism-from-afghan-community\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Federation of Islamic Councils says event due to feature two senior Taliban representatives was not intended to \u2018legitimise any group\u2019Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (Afic) h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,1340,1729,6,1331,13079,4731],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348207,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348206\/revisions\/348207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}