{"id":2759,"date":"2003-01-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/01\/07\/2003-01-07-kerala-muslim-minister-criticized-for-wearing-tilak\/"},"modified":"2003-01-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-07T12:00:00","slug":"2003-01-07-kerala-muslim-minister-criticized-for-wearing-tilak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/01\/07\/2003-01-07-kerala-muslim-minister-criticized-for-wearing-tilak\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Muslim Minister Criticized for Wearing Tilak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/2003\/Jan\/04\/printedition\/040103\/detNAT18.shtml\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KERALA, INDIA, January 3, 2003: Muslim organizations have demanded Kerala&#8217;s Minister for Local Government, Cherkalam Abdullah, a Muslim, should do penance for wearing a tilak at a function in Sringeri Mutt recently. As a result of Mr. Abdullah&#8217;s actions, The Sunni Youth League has barred the minister from entering mosques. &#8220;It is nothing but blasphemy. A true Muslim is not supposed to observe the customs of another religion. Since he has defied the Muslim tenet he is not supposed to enter the mosque,&#8221; League president Syed Ummarali Tangal said. &#8220;He can salvage the situation by observing a strict penance,&#8221; another leader said. The minister, a Muslim League nominee in the government, responded, &#8220;I went along with the Chief Minister to attend a function. Everyone was welcomed with tilak and arati. They applied tilak on my forehead (the traditional greeting). I did nothing on my own.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE KERALA, INDIA, January 3, 2003: Muslim organizations have demanded Kerala&#8217;s Minister for Local Government, Cherkalam Abdullah, a,&#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-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","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=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}