{"id":39461,"date":"2021-12-04T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/04\/hindu-groups-target-muslim-sites-india-gurgaon"},"modified":"2021-12-04T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T05:00:16","slug":"nowhere-left-to-pray-hindu-groups-target-muslim-sites-in-gurgaon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39461","title":{"rendered":"Nowhere left to pray: Hindu groups target Muslim sites in Gurgaon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dwindling number of places available for the metropolis\u2019s Muslims are becoming religious battlefields<\/p>\n<p>Until a few weeks ago, no one had given much thought to the car park outside sector 37 police station in Gurgaon, a satellite city to India\u2019s capital, Delhi. But for the last few Fridays the dusty, litter-strewn patch of concrete has become a religious battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>This week as a Hindu nationalist mob assembled in their usual saffron, roars of their signature slogans \u201c<em>Jai Shri Ram<\/em>\u201d (Hail Lord Ram) and \u201chail the motherland\u201d filled the air. Then a cry rang out: \u201cThe Muslims are here.\u201d And the mob began to charge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/04\/hindu-groups-target-muslim-sites-india-gurgaon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dwindling number of places available for the metropolis\u2019s Muslims are becoming religious battlefieldsUntil a few weeks ago, no one had given much thought to the car park outside sector 37 police station in Gurgaon, a satellite city to India\u2019s capit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2713,"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":[353,516,62,447,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","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\/39461","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\/2713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39462,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39461\/revisions\/39462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}