{"id":1196,"date":"2003-02-02T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T23:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2003\/02\/02\/the-next-big-thing-to-worry-about\/"},"modified":"2003-02-02T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2003-02-02T23:30:48","slug":"the-next-big-thing-to-worry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2003\/02\/02\/the-next-big-thing-to-worry-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The next big thing to worry about"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times Sunday Magazine carries an excellent article<\/a> today on Hindu fanaticism in India. Read it now. It discusses, among other things, the violence against Muslims in Gujarat a little while back. Two thousand dead and 100,000 displaced: this is the kind of violence that led the U.S. to bomb Belgrade for Serb treatment of Kosovars.<\/p>\n

Anil Dash<\/a>, super-blogger and Indo-American, has been beating a drum of alarm on this subject for some time. And I’ve been aware that the BJP — the party in power in India — is Hindu-chauvanist ever since college. But I wasn’t aware of the systematic, organized quality of the problem until I read this article. And the scale of the problem is potentially so vast that the whole Israeli-Palestinian conflict — so prominent in American news and such a focal point of international affairs — will look like the Hatfields and McCoys by comparison.<\/p>\n

After I read the article, Gwen pointed out that our friend Ish, an Indian Muslim, has family in Gujarat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times Sunday Magazine carries an excellent article today on Hindu fanaticism in India. Read it now. It discusses, among other things, the violence against Muslims in Gujarat a little while back. Two thousand dead and 100,000 displaced: this is the kind of violence that led the U.S. to bomb Belgrade for Serb […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}