{"id":449065,"date":"2021-12-27T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/28\/coalitions-religious-discrimination-bill-sends-dangerous-signal-muslim-groups-say"},"modified":"2021-12-27T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:30:03","slug":"coalitions-religious-discrimination-bill-sends-dangerous-signal-muslim-groups-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/27\/coalitions-religious-discrimination-bill-sends-dangerous-signal-muslim-groups-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition\u2019s religious discrimination bill sends \u2018dangerous signal\u2019, Muslim groups say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clause permitting authorities to discriminate on national security grounds is troubling for Islamic community, its leaders tell parliamentary committee<\/p><ul><li><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><\/li><\/ul><p>The government\u2019s religious discrimination law could place \u201ca heavy burden\u201d on already marginalised Muslim communities because it allows discrimination on national security grounds, Islamic organisations have said.<\/p><p>Scott Morrison has said the proposed legislation should \u201cgive Australians of faith confidence \u2013 confidence to be themselves and confidence in the country they belong to\u201d.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/28\/coalitions-religious-discrimination-bill-sends-dangerous-signal-muslim-groups-say\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/28\/coalitions-religious-discrimination-bill-sends-dangerous-signal-muslim-groups-say\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clause permitting authorities to discriminate on national security grounds is troubling for Islamic community, its leaders tell parliamentary committeeGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe government\u2019s religious discrimination law co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1730,6,1331,31050,105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449065"}],"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\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449066,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449065\/revisions\/449066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}