{"id":56236,"date":"2023-06-26T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T08:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/26\/obama-remarks-on-indias-treatment-of-muslims-hypocritical-minister"},"modified":"2023-06-26T17:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T08:39:34","slug":"obama-remarks-on-indias-treatment-of-muslims-hypocritical-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56236","title":{"rendered":"Obama remarks on India\u2019s treatment of Muslims \u2018hypocritical\u2019 \u2013 minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian finance minister hits out after former US president said Modi government should protect rights of Muslims<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s finance minister has derided comments by the former US president Barack Obama that Narendra Modi\u2019s government should protect the rights of minority Muslims, accusing Obama of being hypocritical.<\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jun\/22\/joe-biden-narendra-modi-visit-washington\">Indian prime minister\u2019s state visit to the US<\/a> last week, Obama told CNN that the issue of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/22\/modi-us-visit-human-rights-protest-muslim-leaders\">protection of the Muslim minority<\/a> in a majority-Hindu India\u201d would be worth raising in Modi\u2019s meeting with the US president, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/26\/obama-remarks-on-indias-treatment-of-muslims-hypocritical-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian finance minister hits out after former US president said Modi government should protect rights of MuslimsIndia\u2019s finance minister has derided comments by the former US president Barack Obama that Narendra Modi\u2019s government should protect the rig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"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":[596,62,447,433,371,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-india","category-islam","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","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\/56236","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\/1289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56237,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56236\/revisions\/56237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}