{"id":207,"date":"2004-01-24T10:32:29","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/24\/vhp-leader-warns-all-of-india-may-be"},"modified":"2004-01-24T10:32:29","modified_gmt":"2004-01-24T14:32:29","slug":"vhp-leader-warns-all-of-india-may-become-another-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/24\/vhp-leader-warns-all-of-india-may-become-another-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"VHP Leader Warns All of India May become another Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a87'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Ashok Singhal, a top leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) whose party leaders were <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/GujaratEvidence\">cited by victims<\/A> as leading massacres of Muslims in Gujarat in early 2002, warned that &#x201C;If there&#8217;s another effort to create another Pakistan in India, all of India would become another Gujarat.&#x201D;&nbsp; He was <A href=\"http:\/\/www.newkerala.com\/news-daily\/news\/features.php?action=fullnews&amp;id=5335\">speaking<\/A> at a felicitation ceremony for the monarch of Nepal&#x2014;the world&#x2019;s only Hindu monarch:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>Though the ensuing retaliatory violence directed at Muslims was largely blamed on hardline Hindu groups, Singhal described it as &#8220;the uprising of the masses&#8221;. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>&#8220;There are no extremists in Hinduism,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People rose up to avenge the atrocities perpetrated on them.&#x201D;<\/EM>&nbsp; <BR><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashok Singhal, a top leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) whose party leaders were cited by victims as leading massacres of Muslims in Gujarat in early 2002, warned that &#x201C;If there&#8217;s another effort to create another Pakistan in India, all of India would become another Gujarat.&#x201D;&nbsp; He was speaking at a felicitation ceremony for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}