{"id":11856,"date":"2017-12-02T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:32:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:32:41","slug":"obama-india-needs-to-cherish-its-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/obama-india-needs-to-cherish-its-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: India needs to cherish its Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nIndia needs to cherish and nurture its Muslim population that is integrated and considers itself Indian, former US President Barack Obama said here today.<\/p>\n<p>It is an idea that needs to be reinforced, the former President said at a media event.<\/p>\n<p>Obama said he had emphasised the need for religious tolerance and the right to practice one\u2019s own faith during closed-door talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his last trip to India in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a counter narrative taking place, at all times, but it\u2019s particularly pronounced now&#8230; in Europe, US and sometimes in India where those old tribal impulses reassert themselves under leaders who try to push back and under leaders who try to exploit them,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, India needs to cherish and nurture its Muslim population that is integrated and considers itself Indian, former US President Barack Obama said here today. It is an idea that needs to be reinforced, the former President said at a media event. Obama said he had emphasised the need for religious tolerance and the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}