{"id":14183,"date":"2014-11-14T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T10:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=14183"},"modified":"2017-12-11T07:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T06:54:59","slug":"growing-religious-persecution-a-threat-to-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=14183","title":{"rendered":"Growing religious persecution &#8216;a threat to everyone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/2014-11-14_12-05-01.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<!--[advanced_iframe securitykey=\"eecc28587071a557a4d7ab985109c85ec4091199\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/BBC.htm\"] <!-- --><br \/>\nSource: http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-30001063<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\njQuery(document).ready(function(){\n\tsetInterval( function() { AutoiFrameAdjustiFrameHeight( 'auto-iframe', 50); }, 1000 );\n});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"auto-iframe\" name=\"auto-iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/BBC.htm\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"onload=\"AutoiFrameAdjustiFrameHeight('auto-iframe',50);\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/2014-11-14_11-56-59.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Caroline Wyatt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Religious affairs correspondent, BBC News) They are uninspired by the secular culture of the West with its maximum of choice and minimum of meaning. &#8220;In a democracy, the will of the majority should prevail whilst ensuring that the minority views are safeguarded. How that balance is struck is clearly never easy.&#8221; So persecution or victimisation of people for their faith &#8211; or indeed lack of it &#8211; is not simply an issue for the religious. It should be of concern for everyone, of all religions or none.  So why is it in these early years of the 21st Century, just as much of the West thought secularism had triumphed, that violence or intolerance in the name of religion is staging such a dramatic comeback in much of the Middle East, Asia and parts of Africa?<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54060,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183\/revisions\/54060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}