{"id":55049,"date":"2023-05-12T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/12\/trouble-at-the-temple-ban-on-muslims-a-sign-of-indias-new-intolerance"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:00:43","slug":"trouble-at-the-temple-ban-on-muslims-a-sign-of-indias-new-intolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55049","title":{"rendered":"Trouble at the temple: ban on Muslims a sign of India\u2019s new intolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Different faiths were once able to celebrate together in Karnataka. Now Hindu vigilante groups are targeting those who don\u2019t share their beliefs<\/p>\n<p>For 800 years, Bappanadu Sri Durgaparameshwari temple had stood as a symbol of India\u2019s cohesive religious past. It is said that the Hindu temple, which sits on the bank of the Shambhavi River in India\u2019s southern state of Karnataka, was built by a Muslim merchant, Bappa Beary, after a goddess came to him in a dream. The land to build the temple was donated by a local Jain ruler.<\/p>\n<p>Over the centuries, its unique origins were regularly honoured and the annual festivals, celebrations and buffalo races that took place at Bappanadu temple were attended by Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Jains alike.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/12\/trouble-at-the-temple-ban-on-muslims-a-sign-of-indias-new-intolerance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different faiths were once able to celebrate together in Karnataka. Now Hindu vigilante groups are targeting those who don\u2019t share their beliefsFor 800 years, Bappanadu Sri Durgaparameshwari temple had stood as a symbol of India\u2019s cohesive religious pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3731,"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":[516,62,447,433,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","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\/55049","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\/3731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55050,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55049\/revisions\/55050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}