{"id":46105,"date":"2014-09-29T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_u-s-visited_by_only_politician_ever_banned_over_religious_freedom_violat\/"},"modified":"2014-09-29T02:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T02:00:36","slug":"ct_u-s-visited_by_only_politician_ever_banned_over_religious_freedom_violat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46105","title":{"rendered":"(CT) U.S. Visited by Only Politician Ever Banned Over Religious Freedom Violations&#8211;Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[This week]&#8230;the only person ever banned by the United States because of alleged religious freedom violations\u201d\u201dIndia\u2019s newly-elected prime minister, Narendra Modi\u201d\u201dwill begin a four-day tour on American shores.<\/p>\n<p>After Modi failed to prevent the riot deaths of 1,000 Muslims in 2002 while he was chief minister of the western state of Gujarat, the State Department leaned on a little-known provision in the International Religious Freedom Act that says foreign officials responsible for \u201csevere violations of religious freedom\u201d\u009d shouldn\u2019t be admitted to America. The Wall Street Journal offers more details.<\/p>\n<p>The visa restriction might have been permanent, but this summer Modi was elected to the most powerful political position in India. He\u2019ll meet with President Obama and major business corporations during his visit from September 26-30. One American legal group filed suit against Modi this week, though the move is largely seen as symbolic, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2014\/september\/us-visited-politician-banned-religious-freedom-india-modi.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This week]&#8230;the only person ever banned by the United States because of alleged religious freedom violations\u201d\u201dIndia\u2019s newly-elected prime minister, Narendra Modi\u201d\u201dwill begin a four-day tour on American shores. After Modi failed to prevent the riot deaths of 1,000 Muslims in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46105\">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":[39,40,50,201,144,119,481,114,151,129,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-india","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46105","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=46105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}