{"id":44999,"date":"2022-05-30T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T05:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/30\/the-truth-behind-indian-extremists-anti-muslim-great-replacement-theory"},"modified":"2022-05-30T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T05:30:20","slug":"the-truth-behind-indian-extremists-anti-muslim-great-replacement-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44999","title":{"rendered":"The truth behind Indian extremists\u2019 anti-Muslim \u2018great replacement theory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu nationalist fears of demographic erasure by Muslims have been stoked by supremacists for years. But new official data reveals a very different story<\/p>\n<p>Yati Narsinghanand had a stark warning for India\u2019s one billion Hindus: produce more children or prepare to live in an Islamic state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way their [Muslims\u2019] population is increasing, there will be a Muslim prime minister in 2029,\u201d declared the extremist priest at a religious conclave last month, out on bail after <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/haridwar-hate-speech-case-yati-narsinghanand-arrested\/articleshow\/88921949.cms\">being arrested earlier<\/a> this year on hate speech charges. \u201cOnce that happens, 50% [of] Hindus will have to undergo religious conversion, and 40% will be killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/30\/the-truth-behind-indian-extremists-anti-muslim-great-replacement-theory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu nationalist fears of demographic erasure by Muslims have been stoked by supremacists for years. But new official data reveals a very different storyYati Narsinghanand had a stark warning for India\u2019s one billion Hindus: produce more children or pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3096,"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":[721,59,346,62,706,371,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertility-problems","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","category-population","category-religion","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44999","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\/3096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45000,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44999\/revisions\/45000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}