{"id":44482,"date":"2014-06-07T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_alleged_hindu_fringe_group_members_arrested_for_murder_of_muslim\/"},"modified":"2014-06-07T20:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T20:00:55","slug":"wsj_alleged_hindu_fringe_group_members_arrested_for_murder_of_muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44482","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Alleged Hindu Fringe Group Members Arrested for Murder of Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police arrested 17 men they say are members of a fringe Hindu nationalist group on suspicion of killing a Muslim computer engineer, in a case that has renewed concerns about religious violence in the world&#8217;s largest democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the men beat to death 28-year-old Mohsin Sadiq Shaikh in the western city of Pune because he was Muslim. The attack happened Monday night after days of anti-Muslim incidents, said Additional Commissioner of Police Abdur Rehman. &#8220;He was a poor man, returning home after performing prayers at the mosque&#8221; and easily identifiable as a Muslim because of his beard and skullcap, Mr. Rehman said.<\/p>\n<p>The killing has stoked fears among Muslims and others that Hindu fundamentalist groups energized by the recent landslide election victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has Hindu-nationalist roots, could resort to violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/alleged-hindu-fringe-group-members-arrested-for-murder-of-muslim-1401989884\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police arrested 17 men they say are members of a fringe Hindu nationalist group on suspicion of killing a Muslim computer engineer, in a case that has renewed concerns about religious violence in the world&#8217;s largest democracy. Police said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44482\">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":[39,50,42,201,168,431,481,161,426,155,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-hinduism","category-india","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44482","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=44482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}