{"id":890,"date":"2005-01-01T22:01:40","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/01\/01\/hindu_bigots_shoot_themselves_in_the_foot"},"modified":"2005-01-01T22:01:40","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T21:01:40","slug":"hindu_bigots_shoot_themselves_in_the_foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/01\/01\/hindu_bigots_shoot_themselves_in_the_foot","title":{"rendered":"Hindu bigots shoot themselves in the foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time in 2003 I took part in a rally in north-west London against an appearance by Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat, where an organised &#8220;riot&#8221; in 2002 resulted in a huge number of Muslims being murdered and raped and numerous mosques and Muslim businesses being destroyed.  Modi&#8217;s government is widely suspected of being heavily involved in these events.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP was kicked out of national office last year, for reasons not all connected with their support for &#8220;fascism&#8221;, i.e. Hindu bigotry, but it seems Modi persists in Gujarat.  Today I saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footprintbooks.com\/SECTIONS\/guides\/book.asp?productID=218\">latest edition<\/a> of what used to be the Footprint guide to Rajasthan and Gujarat.  Only now, Gujarat has been left out.  There is no &#8220;preface to the second edition&#8221; to explain why Gujarat has been unceremoniously expunged from the book, but we can all guess that they no longer consider the state to be a viable tourist destination given that the state is still governed by the local equivalent of the KKK-Democrats of 1950s Mississippi and that (among other things) British Muslim tourists of local origin have been dragged out of their car and murdered; the case is still not solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time in 2003 I took part in a rally in north-west London against an appearance by Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat, where an organised &#8220;riot&#8221; in 2002 resulted in a huge&#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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other_stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}