{"id":6440,"date":"2007-12-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/03\/muslim-minister-decries-destruction-of-hindu-temples\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T12:00:00","slug":"muslim-minister-decries-destruction-of-hindu-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/03\/muslim-minister-decries-destruction-of-hindu-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Minister Decries Destruction of Hindu Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gulf-times.com\/site\/topics\/article.asp?cu_no=2&#038;item_no=188186&#038;version=1&#038;template_id=45&#038;parent_id=25\">www.gulf-times.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 4, 2007: A senior minister in predominantly Muslim Malaysia yesterday denounced the destruction of Hindu temples one week after thousands of ethnic Indians held a rally protesting alleged discrimination. Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, an official in the prime minister&#8217;s office, described action by local authorities in recent years to demolish temples&#8211;sometimes while people were worshipping&#8211;as insensitive. The senior minister noted that the latest site to be torn down was a 36-year-old temple in central Selangor state, destroyed while devotees were praying in early November. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was stupid of the officials not to think about looking into sensitive matters like this, and I believe it could have been done in a better way,&#8221; he told reporters. Mohamad Nazri said Selangor chief minister Mohamad Khir Toyo had been told to handle religious issues with sensitivity and that he did not think the leader had a &#8220;personal vendetta&#8221; against Hindus. &#8220;We must be sensitive and not demolish temples,&#8221; he said, though he noted that the sites had to be taken down to make way for development projects. <\/p>\n<p>The government was shaken by a mass rally on November 25 that drew 8,000 people protesting alleged discrimination by the Muslim Malay majority, against ethnic Indians who make up 8% of the population. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.gulf-times.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 4, 2007: A senior minister in predominantly Muslim Malaysia yesterday denounced the destruction of Hindu,&#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-6440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440","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=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}