{"id":13221,"date":"2018-08-30T04:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T04:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13221"},"modified":"2018-08-30T04:28:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T04:28:20","slug":"unprecedented-number-of-muslim-americans-running-for-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13221","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented number of Muslim Americans running for office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"49.3672922252\">\n<p>The number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2017\/07\/muslim-politicians-survive-today-usa-170725160522580.html\">Muslim candidates<\/a> standing in the primary elections in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/muslim-americans-running-office-record-numbers-180805140505236.html\">risen dramatically<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advocacy groups say they have been spurred on by President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/05\/islamophobia-prompts-muslims-engage-democracy-report-180504053910672.html\">policies and rhetoric<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/06\/female-candidates-lead-democratic-fight-primary-elections-180604141429981.html\">primaries<\/a> decide the candidates for November&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/us-efforts-ramped-interference-midterm-election-180803155018608.html\">midterm election<\/a>, which determines the shape of the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Andy Gallacher reports from Arizona.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Muslim candidates standing in the primary elections in the United States has risen dramatically. Advocacy groups say they have been spurred on by President Donald Trump&#8217;s policies and rhetoric. The primaries decide the candidates for November&#8217;s midterm election, which determines the shape of the US Congress. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Andy Gallacher reports from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}