{"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","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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}]}}