{"id":46863,"date":"2022-07-29T20:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/jul\/29\/dawoodi-bohra-imam-mufaddal-saifuddin-visit-uk-british-girls-risk-mutilation-warn-fgm-campaigners"},"modified":"2022-07-29T20:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:45:03","slug":"bohra-imams-visit-puts-british-girls-at-risk-of-mutilation-warn-fgm-campaigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46863","title":{"rendered":"Bohra imam\u2019s visit puts British girls at risk of mutilation, warn FGM campaigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawoodi Bohra leader Mufaddal Saifuddin, who is in the UK to preach, is an advocate of the abusive practice whose visa should be revoked, say activists<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners have criticised the UK government for granting a visa to a religious leader who has advocated for female genital mutilation (FGM).<\/p>\n<p>Mufaddal Saifuddin who is the <em>syedna, <\/em>or leader, of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a sect of Shia Islam with 1.2 million followers worldwide, will give sermons in front of tens of thousands of people at Northolt mosque in London between 29 July and 7 August.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/jul\/29\/dawoodi-bohra-imam-mufaddal-saifuddin-visit-uk-british-girls-risk-mutilation-warn-fgm-campaigners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawoodi Bohra leader Mufaddal Saifuddin, who is in the UK to preach, is an advocate of the abusive practice whose visa should be revoked, say activistsCampaigners have criticised the UK government for granting a visa to a religious leader who has advoc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,346,62,447,4,941,371,79,61,52,2410,281,1792,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","category-islam","category-politics","category-prince-charles","category-religion","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-women","category-womens-health","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46864,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46863\/revisions\/46864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}