{"id":2302,"date":"2002-08-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/08\/19\/2002-08-19-us-university-sued-over-koran-class\/"},"modified":"2002-08-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-19T12:00:00","slug":"2002-08-19-us-university-sued-over-koran-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/08\/19\/2002-08-19-us-university-sued-over-koran-class\/","title":{"rendered":"US University Sued Over Koran Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/2178067.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NORTH CAROLINA, USA, August 7, 2002: A US university that included a book on the Koran in a class for new students is being sued by a Christian organization and a group of students. The case began when the University of North Carolina chose professor Michael Sells&#8217;s book, &#8220;Approaching the Qur&#8217;an&#8221; for one of its courses. Students were required to read the book &#8212; a translation into English of passages from Islam&#8217;s holy book &#8212; as part of a first-year course. But the Christian American Family Association Center for Law &#038; Policy filed a lawsuit on behalf of three students and two former students in late July. It claimed that the university&#8217;s requirement to read the book violated their First Amendment rights (forbidding the government from promoting or endorsing a religion). It added that the book does not present a full picture of Islam as it does not contain passages cited by Islamic militants as justification for acts of terror. The case remains in the courts.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NORTH CAROLINA, USA, August 7, 2002: A US university that included a book on the Koran in,&#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-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","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=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}