{"id":1087,"date":"2005-04-29T17:04:59","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T16:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/04\/29\/muslim_for_labour_distances_himself"},"modified":"2005-04-29T17:04:59","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T16:04:59","slug":"muslim_for_labour_distances_himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/04\/29\/muslim_for_labour_distances_himself","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Muslim for Labour&#8221; distances himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Atif Imtiaz at Bradford Muslim <a href=\"http:\/\/bradfordmuslim.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/labour-and-pakistani-vote-part-two.html\">reported<\/a> a few days ago that one of the elders in Birmingham whose name appeared at the bottom of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/letters\/story\/0,,1462857,00.html\">a letter in the <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a> on 12th April telling Muslims to vote Labour in fact had nothing to do with it and has distanced himself from it.  I asked Atif what his source was, and he told me that the Pir had written a letter to the <em>Daily Jang<\/em> to make clear his distance from the &#8220;Labour letter&#8221;, which was published in part on the front page of the <em>Daily Jang<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Atif Imtiaz at Bradford Muslim reported a few days ago that one of the elders in Birmingham whose name appeared at the bottom of a letter in the Guardian on 12th April telling&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election_2005"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-hx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}