{"id":94334,"date":"2020-10-26T05:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=94334"},"modified":"2020-10-26T05:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:35:32","slug":"only-a-retrograde-society-can-allow-fanning-rss-extremist-ideology-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=94334","title":{"rendered":"Only a retrograde society can allow fanning RSS extremist ideology: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Oct 25 (TNS): President Dr Arif Alvi Sunday said that only a retrograde society like India could encourage the promotion of RSS-inspired extremist and nefarious ideology of Hindutva and Bharatiya Janata Party.<\/p>\n<p>The president said this on Twitter commenting on a tweet by an Indian journalist Rana Ayyub\u2019s tweet who shared an advertisement of a residential apartment available for rent in a posh Mumbai locality with a clear refusal for Muslims and pets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Officially sanctioned prejudice in the 21st century. Only a decadent society, encouraged by the extremist, abhorrent philosophy of BJP\/Hindutva\/RSS can allow this to happen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d8ilXfYD7L\">https:\/\/t.co\/d8ilXfYD7L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Arif Alvi (@ArifAlvi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArifAlvi\/status\/1320255184723972096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe president said even in the 21st century, Indian state is backing such a bigotry.<br \/>\n\u201cMuslims and Pets not allowed. This is one of the most posh addresses in Mumbai, Bandra. This is 20th century India. Remind me we are not a communal nation, tell me this is not apartheid,\u201d commented the journalist who works for The Washington Post, The New York Times and other international media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>She said she had been house hunting in Bandra the last three months. Upon reading \u201cShaikh\u201d as her surname, she got a call from the broker on behalf of the owner with the \u201cmost obnoxious excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayyub was endorsed by another journalist Vaishna Roy of The Hindu saying that while looking for a house in Chennai, the most common question she was asked whether she was Muslim. \u201cIf I had been (a Muslim), a good percentage of homes would have been unavailable for me. The brokers say, sorry madam, we don\u2019t want to ask but owner told us to,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Oct 25 (TNS): President Dr Arif Alvi Sunday said that only a retrograde society like India could encourage the promotion of RSS-inspired extremist and nefarious ideology of Hindutva and Bharatiya Janata Party. The president said this on Twitter commenting on a tweet by an Indian journalist Rana Ayyub\u2019s tweet who shared an advertisement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94335,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94334\/revisions\/94335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}