{"id":211,"date":"2004-01-26T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/26\/fallout-from-gujarat-reaches-us\/"},"modified":"2004-01-26T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2004-01-26T15:07:35","slug":"fallout-from-gujarat-reaches-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/26\/fallout-from-gujarat-reaches-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout from Gujarat reaches US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a92'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The BBC today has an article, titled &#x201C;<\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3415931.stm\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Fallout from Gujarat reaches US<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">.&#x201D;&nbsp; The article discusses attempts made within the Indian diaspora to reach out to different religious communities, among a growing debate on Hindutva.&nbsp; The article describes the Vishwa Hindu Parisad (VHP) in general terms, and largely ignores the role of the party in <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinevolunteers.org\/gujarat\/reports\/index.htm\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">hate propaganda and violence<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> against minorities in India.&nbsp; It also incorrectly uses the word &#x201C;riots&#x201D; to describe what was an organized campaign of violence against Muslims in Gujarat in the spring of 2002:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>A large contingent of the worshippers is from Gujarat &#8211; the state in western India that was engulfed by sectarian riots early in 2002. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>Up to 2,000 people were killed &#8211; most of them Muslims.<\/EM>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC today has an article, titled &#x201C;Fallout from Gujarat reaches US.&#x201D;&nbsp; The article discusses attempts made within the Indian diaspora to reach out to different religious communities, among a growing debate on Hindutva.&nbsp; The article describes the Vishwa Hindu Parisad (VHP) in general terms, and largely ignores the role of the party in hate [&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-211","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\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}