{"id":11362,"date":"2019-11-21T20:52:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/21\/india-muslim-sanskrit-professor-forced-to-flee-by-hindu-students"},"modified":"2019-11-21T20:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:52:54","slug":"indian-muslim-sanskrit-professor-in-hiding-after-rightwing-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11362","title":{"rendered":"Indian Muslim Sanskrit professor in hiding after rightwing protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feroz Khan flees after Hindu nationalist group says: \u2018A Muslim cannot teach us our religion\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Muslim scholar of Sanskrit has gone into hiding after protests from some rightwing Hindu students claiming that, as a Muslim, he cannot teach Sanskrit, the ancient classical language of Hinduism.<\/p>\n<p>Feroz Khan, 29, was the unanimous choice of a selection committee at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi for the post of assistant professor of Sanskrit literature. The committee members were impressed with his erudition, which stems from a childhood passion for the language that continued into further education.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/21\/india-muslim-sanskrit-professor-forced-to-flee-by-hindu-students\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feroz Khan flees after Hindu nationalist group says: \u2018A Muslim cannot teach us our religion\u2019A Muslim scholar of Sanskrit has gone into hiding after protests from some rightwing Hindu students claiming that, as a Muslim, he cannot teach Sanskrit, the an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,447,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11363,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11362\/revisions\/11363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}