{"id":45210,"date":"2022-06-06T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/prophet-muhammad-remarks-embroil-india-in-row-with-gulf-states"},"modified":"2022-06-06T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:00:22","slug":"prophet-muhammad-remarks-embroil-india-in-row-with-gulf-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45210","title":{"rendered":"Prophet Muhammad remarks embroil India in row with Gulf states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Insulting\u2019 comments by spokespeople for ruling Bharatiya Janata party met with anger in Middle East <\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has become embroiled in a diplomatic row with Gulf states after two ruling party spokespeople were accused of making Islamophobic and derogatory comments insulting the prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) suspended its national spokesperson, Nupur Sharma, and expelled its Delhi media head, Naveen Kumar Jindal, after their comments went viral in the Middle East, where they were met with a chorus of diplomatic anger.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/prophet-muhammad-remarks-embroil-india-in-row-with-gulf-states\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Insulting\u2019 comments by spokespeople for ruling Bharatiya Janata party met with anger in Middle East The Indian government has become embroiled in a diplomatic row with Gulf states after two ruling party spokespeople were accused of making Islamophobic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[62,447,1113,1163,60,524,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-islam","category-kuwait","category-oman","category-pakistan","category-qatar","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\/45210","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45211,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210\/revisions\/45211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}