{"id":41638,"date":"2019-11-20T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41638"},"modified":"2019-11-20T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:22:28","slug":"in-secular-india-its-getting-tougher-to-be-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41638","title":{"rendered":"In secular India, it&#8217;s getting tougher to be Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi, India (CNN)<\/cite>On the eve of <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/india\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a>&#8216;s independence, the man who would soon become the country&#8217;s first Prime Minister outlined an aspirational vision.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">India would be a nation where people of all religions had equal rights, privileges and obligations, <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2017\/08\/08\/opinions\/independence-ravi-agrawal-opinion\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jawaharlal Nehru<\/a> said in his now-iconic speech to the country&#8217;s parliament on August 14, 1947.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Now, over 70 years later, there are signs that Nehru&#8217;s hopes for the nation face perhaps their greatest threat.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, India (CNN)On the eve of India&#8217;s independence, the man who would soon become the country&#8217;s first Prime Minister outlined an aspirational vision.India would be a nation where people of all religions had equal rights, privileges and obligations, Jawaharlal Nehru said in his now-iconic speech to the country&#8217;s parliament on August 14, 1947.Now, over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41638","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=41638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}