{"id":6452,"date":"2007-12-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/07\/us-commission-on-religious-freedaom-concerned-at-malaysian-temple-destruction\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T12:00:00","slug":"us-commission-on-religious-freedaom-concerned-at-malaysian-temple-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/07\/us-commission-on-religious-freedaom-concerned-at-malaysian-temple-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"US Commission on Religious Freedaom Concerned at Malaysian Temple Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jr-YlI6nDovUpmdp28oiaxVm0xrA\">afp.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2007: A US Congress-appointed commission expressed concern Thursday at the destruction of Hindu temples and other alleged discrimination faced by religious minorities in predominantly-Muslim Malaysia. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom urged the administration of President George W. Bush to raise the matter with Kuala Lumpur and &#8220;insist that immediate measures be taken to protect sacred sites and prevent further destruction.&#8221; The commission said it was &#8220;concerned&#8221; by recent Malaysian government actions against the ethnic Indian Hindu minority &#8220;curtailing their human rights, including the freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.&#8221; &#8220;Continued discrimination against members of the ethnic Indian Hindu minority, including the destruction of sacred places and images, only fuels religious unrest and intolerance,&#8221; said commission chairman Michael Cromartie.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>afp.google.com WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2007: A US Congress-appointed commission expressed concern Thursday at the destruction of Hindu temples and,&#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-6452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452","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=6452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}