{"id":6482,"date":"2007-12-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/20\/malaysia-may-create-department-for-non-muslim-affairs\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:00:00","slug":"malaysia-may-create-department-for-non-muslim-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/20\/malaysia-may-create-department-for-non-muslim-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia May Create Department for Non-Muslim Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/news.asp?cat=international&#038;id=IN327\">www.newsonair.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 19, 2007: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has said he will look into ethnic Indians&#8217; demand for setting up a separate department for Non-Muslim affairs in the country. Mr. Abdullah said in Kuala Lumpur that there are already various government committees and panels in existence that look after the affairs of non-Muslims in this multi-ethnic, multi-religious country.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Abdullah later met ethnic Indian organisations and promised equal opportunities to all communities. The premier&#8217;s statement came after Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said it is difficult to set up such a department as Islam is the country&#8217;s only official religion.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.newsonair.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 19, 2007: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has said he will look into ethnic Indians&#8217;,&#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-6482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482","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=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}