{"id":2680,"date":"2014-10-01T06:45:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T06:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2014-10-01T06:45:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T06:45:55","slug":"protests-in-new-york-against-latif-siddique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/protests-in-new-york-against-latif-siddique\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests in New York against Latif Siddique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddique\u2019s comments on hajj, Tablighi Jamaat and expatiate Bangladeshis in New York have sparked protests here and in the United States.<br \/>\nThe minister, who is in NY as part of the PM&#8217;s entourage, made the comments about at a programme in Jackson Heights on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe local unit of BNP staged a demonstration in protest against Siddique&#8217;s comments.<br \/>\n&#8220;Minister Latif Siddique came to the US on Bangladeshi people&#8217;s money,&#8221; Gias Ahmed, a BNP activist, told it. &#8220;He has hurt the religious sentiment of the people.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnother activist Zillur Rahman demanded for the minister\u2019s exemplary punishment for what he said outrageous comments against talk show participants and journalists.<br \/>\nSahabuddin Ahmed, a follower of Tablighi Jamaat living in New York, told that his community was surprised at the minister\u2019s comment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/protests-in-new-york-against-latif-siddique\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddique\u2019s comments on hajj, Tablighi Jamaat and expatiate Bangladeshis in New York have sparked protests here and in the United States. The minister, who is in NY as part of the PM&#8217;s entourage, made the comments about at a programme in Jackson Heights on Sunday. The local unit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}