{"id":38447,"date":"2018-08-06T12:34:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=38447"},"modified":"2018-08-06T12:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:34:21","slug":"pm-modi-wears-outlandish-headgears-but-why-not-muslim-skull-caps-asks-congress-leader-shashi-tharoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pm-modi-wears-outlandish-headgears-but-why-not-muslim-skull-caps-asks-congress-leader-shashi-tharoor\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi wears &#8216;outlandish&#8217; headgears but why not Muslim skull caps, asks Congress leader Shashi Tharoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and questioned as to why he &#8220;refuses&#8221; to wear Muslim skull caps.<\/p>\n<p>Tharoor was speaking during a seminar titled &#8216;Standing up to hatred: Intolerance and violence in contemporary India&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why does the PM, who is seen wearing all sorts of outlandish headgears wherever he goes around the world, refuse to wear a Muslim skull cap? Why does he refuse to wear the colour green, which in his view is a colour of Muslims and wearing the colour amounts to Muslim appeasement?,&#8221; Tharoor said.<\/p>\n<p>Social activist Swami Agnivesh was also a speaker at the event. He had recently accused the Sangh Parivar of propagating communal hatred and urged the people to come together and fight the \u201cmenace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agnivesh&#8217;s statement had come after he was allegedly attacked by a group of BJP-affiliated youth wing workers in Jharkhand last month.<\/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>Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and questioned as to why he &#8220;refuses&#8221; to wear Muslim skull caps. Tharoor was speaking during a seminar titled &#8216;Standing up to hatred: Intolerance and violence in contemporary India&#8217;. &#8220;Why does the PM, who is seen wearing all sorts of outlandish headgears wherever [&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":38448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38447","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\/38447","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=38447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38449,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447\/revisions\/38449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}