{"id":10757,"date":"2012-01-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/01\/08\/hindus-denounce-ad-attacking-presidential-hopeful-huntsman-s-values\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-denounce-ad-attacking-presidential-hopeful-huntsman-s-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/01\/08\/hindus-denounce-ad-attacking-presidential-hopeful-huntsman-s-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus Denounce Ad Attacking Presidential Hopeful Huntsman&#8217;s Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/01\/07\/politics\/huntsman-youtube-ad\/index.html?eref=igoogledmn_topstories\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA, January 7, 2012 (CNN): Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman called it stupid. His rival Ron Paul denounced it. But perhaps most appalled by a &#8220;China Jon&#8221; ad on YouTube were Hindus in America. The ad also shows images of Huntsman with his two adopted daughters &#8212; one from China and the other, India. The Huntsmans adopted Indian daughter Asha Bharati from the western state of Gujarat in 2006. The ad asks: &#8220;Share our values? A man of faith?&#8221; as a photograph flashes of Huntsman with an infant Asha Bharati. Both are a wearing a red tikka, a mark associated with the sacred and often seen on foreheads at Hindu ceremonies and temples.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu American Foundation objected to the insinuations made in the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This deplorable ad is blatantly racist and religiously intolerant, and crosses all lines of acceptable political discourse,&#8221; said Suhag Shukla, the foundation&#8217;s managing director and legal counsel. &#8220;Instead of vilifying Governor Huntsman, he should be applauded for being open-minded enough to raise his adopted daughter as a Hindu,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Huntsman, a Mormon, is raising Asha &#8220;to learn about and appreciate her native culture and the faiths associated with it,&#8221; his spokesman told CNN last summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To attack a candidate&#8217;s family, particularly his young daughters, is completely unacceptable and should be denounced by all Americans,&#8221; said Samir Kalra, director of the Hindu American Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source USA, January 7, 2012 (CNN): Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman called it stupid. His rival Ron Paul denounced it.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}