{"id":43583,"date":"2014-04-15T17:29:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/indias_muslims_worried_about_controversial_hindu_leader_as_national_electio\/"},"modified":"2014-04-15T17:29:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T17:29:46","slug":"indias_muslims_worried_about_controversial_hindu_leader_as_national_electio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43583","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Muslims worried about controversial Hindu leader as national elections begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As priests chanted and smeared vermilion on Narendra Modi\u2019s forehead, the opposition leader prayed that India would make him its next prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Modi came to this Hindu holy city late last year to worship at a site that has been contested by Hindus and Muslims for centuries. Just yards from where he stood, a two-story wall of metal bars separated the historic temple from a mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Modi has been a polarizing figure in India for years. Now his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has surged in the polls as a discontented electorate has embraced his message of economic growth and corruption-free government. Voters have begun to cast their ballots in national elections, which will continue in stages until May 12.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/indias-muslims-worried-about-controversial-hindu-leader-as-national-elections-begin\/2014\/04\/14\/663c6376-468b-4969-bcf9-75f2007c6d2f_story.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As priests chanted and smeared vermilion on Narendra Modi\u2019s forehead, the opposition leader prayed that India would make him its next prime minister. Modi came to this Hindu holy city late last year to worship at a site that has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43583\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,201,168,431,133,481,161,426,155,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-hinduism","category-history","category-india","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}