{"id":37105,"date":"2011-07-04T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T11:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=37105"},"modified":"2023-04-06T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:18:07","slug":"muslim-for-a-month-can-you-test-drive-a-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/07\/04\/muslim-for-a-month-can-you-test-drive-a-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim for a month: Can you &#8216;test drive&#8217; a religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37107\" title=\"rumi01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/rumi01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"170\" \/>A programme called &#8220;Muslim for a Month&#8221; is inviting non-Muslims to &#8220;test drive&#8221; the religion, immersing them in Islam without converting them.<\/p>\n<p>Run by a social enterprise called the Blood Foundation, which previously organised a similar &#8220;Monk for a Month&#8221; experience, participants are charged a minimum fee.<\/p>\n<p>People taking part pray five times a day, fast and forsake pork and alcohol, with the idea that their experience will help improve interfaith relations.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Asian Network met Barbra Taylor, who tried out the programme in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>via BBC News &#8211; Muslim for a month: Can you &#8216;test drive&#8217; a religion?.<\/p>\n<p>Video : https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-13993848<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A programme called &#8220;Muslim for a Month&#8221; is inviting non-Muslims to &#8220;test drive&#8221; the religion, immersing them in Islam without converting them. Run by a social enterprise called the Blood Foundation, which previously organised a similar &#8220;Monk for a Month&#8221; experience, participants are charged a minimum fee. People taking part pray five times a day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":37107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094],"tags":[5587],"class_list":["post-37105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-muslim-for-a-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}