{"id":864,"date":"2001-06-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/06\/08\/2001-06-08-rioting-in-britain-gives-voice-to-silent-minorities\/"},"modified":"2001-06-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-06-08T12:00:00","slug":"2001-06-08-rioting-in-britain-gives-voice-to-silent-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/06\/08\/2001-06-08-rioting-in-britain-gives-voice-to-silent-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Rioting in Britain Gives Voice to Silent Minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ads\/toshiba\/index.html \">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND, May 28, 2001: Weekend rioting between whites and Asians in Oldham in the English have exposed volatile tensions in what is outwardly one of Europe&#8217;s most stable multi-ethnic cultures. The authorities today blamed members of the white supremacist National Front for the two nights of rioting in which 30 people were injured. Many of the rampaging 15-25 year olds are the children of textile workers who immigrated in the 1960&#8217;s. Unemployment and tensions are high. The Conservative&#8217;s candidate for the upcoming Prime Minister election has made comments alluding to the loss of England to &#8220;bogus asylum seekers&#8221; in an attempt to turn whites from the Labor Party&#8217;s more inclusive tack. Though the country&#8217;s minorities make up 5.5 percent of the population, they account for less than 3 percent of the electorate and just 1.5 percent of the membership of Parliament.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, May 28, 2001: Weekend rioting between whites and Asians in Oldham in the English have,&#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-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}