{"id":16313,"date":"2019-02-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/02\/09\/australian-catholic-school-bars-hindu-girl-for-nose-piercing\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T12:00:00","slug":"australian-catholic-school-bars-hindu-girl-for-nose-piercing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/02\/09\/australian-catholic-school-bars-hindu-girl-for-nose-piercing\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Catholic School Bars Hindu Girl for Nose Piercing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/buzz\/hindu-girl-barred-from-catholic-school-in-australia-nose-piercing-twitter-enraged-2029473.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Dy2OrQPWkAEH_eK.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>AUSTRALIA, February 8, 2019 (News 18): A Hindu girl studying in Perth&#8217;s Aranmore Catholic College has been barred from coming to school until she removes her nose-piercing. 15-year-old Sanya Singhal is a Class 10 student and has been studying in Aranmore since Class 3, local news website West Australian reports. According to Singhal&#8217;s mother, the nose-piercing has religious symbolism. For many in India, especially Hindus, a nose-pin traditionally marks a girl&#8217;s transition into womanhood. <\/p>\n<p>When Singhal tried to rejoin school this year, she was told to take the nose-pin off or go home. Despite producing a letter from her mother explaining the significance of the piercing, she was told to remove the item. The 15-year-old and her mother have decided to stand their ground, accusing the school of religious discrimination. According to Singhal&#8217;s mother, the school allowed Muslim girls to wear the headscarves and Christian women to wear a crucifix but only had an issue with her daughter&#8217;s nose pin which is part of her and her family&#8217;s religious identity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source AUSTRALIA, February 8, 2019 (News 18): A Hindu girl studying in Perth&#8217;s Aranmore Catholic College has been barred from,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}