{"id":1157,"date":"2014-10-31T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T14:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2014-10-31T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T14:28:13","slug":"poppy-hijab-mark-muslim-soldiers-victoria-cross-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2014\/10\/31\/poppy-hijab-mark-muslim-soldiers-victoria-cross-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Poppy Hijab&#8217; to Mark Muslim Soldier&#8217;s Victoria Cross 100 Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"introduction\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/10\/Poppy-Hijab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1158\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/10\/Poppy-Hijab-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy Hijab\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">A fashion designer has created a &#8216;poppy hijab&#8217; to commemorate the centenary of the first Muslim soldier being awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery.<\/p>\n<p>Tabinda-Kauser Ishaq, a final year student at the University of Arts in London, also hopes the piece of clothing will give Muslim women a new way to mark Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<p>Born in what is now Pakistan, Sepoy Khudadad Khan was one of 1.2 million Indian soldiers and 400,000 Muslims who fought alongside British troops in 1914.<\/p>\n<p>He was the sole survivor of a team assigned to defend vital ports in France and Belgium from being taken by German troops. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-29833296\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fashion designer has created a &#8216;poppy hijab&#8217; to commemorate the centenary of the first Muslim soldier being awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery. Tabinda-Kauser Ishaq, a final year student at the University of Arts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race","category-religion","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}