{"id":4377,"date":"2010-02-09T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:58:09","slug":"french-loyalty-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/09\/french-loyalty-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"French loyalty tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4378\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/French-flag-150x150.gif\" alt=\"French flag\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>After months of debate, France\u00a0has unveiled a patriotic \u00a0<a title=\"initiative\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8505751.stm\" target=\"_blank\">initiative <\/a>that will have schools flying the French flag and students singing the national anthem &#8212; and\u00a0require immigrants to\u00a0sign a declaration of French values.\u00a0 The move comes amid\u00a0growing anti-Muslim sentiment in France.\u00a0 International relations Professor <a title=\"William Keylor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/keylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Keylor <\/a>says it&#8217;s no different than Americans saying the Pledge of Allegiance at school or singing the Star Spangled Banner at ball games.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;These proposals to promote good citizenship, which seem so natural to us, have become controversial because they are viewd by many recent Muslim immigrants as part of a campaign to prevent them from practicing their faith.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact William Keylor, 617-358-0197, <a href=\"mailto:wrkeylor@bu.edu\">wrkeylor@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of debate, France\u00a0has unveiled a patriotic \u00a0initiative that will have schools flying the French flag and students singing the national anthem &#8212; and\u00a0require immigrants to\u00a0sign a declaration of French values.\u00a0 The move comes amid\u00a0growing anti-Muslim sentiment in France.\u00a0 International relations Professor William Keylor says it&#8217;s no different than Americans saying the Pledge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2358,648,2357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}