{"id":8186,"date":"2009-08-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/29\/malaysia-muslims-protest-proposed-hindu-temple\/"},"modified":"2009-08-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T12:00:00","slug":"malaysia-muslims-protest-proposed-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/29\/malaysia-muslims-protest-proposed-hindu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Muslims Protest Proposed Hindu temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h5RWG2ScAdC9V7eo-B6-KfUL3QjgD9ABV6U81\">www.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, August 28, 2009: Dozens of Malaysian Muslims paraded Friday with the head of a cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism, protesting the proposed construction of a Hindu temple in their neighborhood. Marching from a nearby mosque after Friday prayers, they dumped the cow head outside the gates of the Selangor state government headquarters. The demonstrators said their neighborhood, Section 23, has a 90 percent Muslim population and building a Hindu temple there was inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Jeyakumar, a state government official in charge of non-Muslim affairs, said &#8220;This is a sign of disrespect, insensitivity and a huge insult to the Indian community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Human Resource Minister S. Subramaniam said the incident infuriated Prime Minister Najib Razak, who asked the national police chief to investigate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.google.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, August 28, 2009: Dozens of Malaysian Muslims paraded Friday with the head of a cow,,&#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-8186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186","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=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}