{"id":1296,"date":"2006-05-29T11:48:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T11:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2006-05-29T11:48:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T11:48:26","slug":"disgraceful-inaction-over-religious-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Disgraceful inaction over religious extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just put up over on Blogcritics an article about the <a href = \"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2006\/05\/29\/072752.php\">closure of an art exhibition in London<\/a> after attacks on paintings by Maqbool Fida Hussain, a 90-year-old, the &#8220;Picasso of India&#8221;, who has been targetered in recent years by Hindu extremists.<\/p>\n<p>A major exhibition, by an important international artist, has been forced to close by probably a handful of people. And hardly anyone seems to have noticed. This simply isn&#8217;t good enough, from the media, from Asia House, from the artistic community, from London itself. <\/p>\n<p>Very sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just put up over on Blogcritics an article about the closure of an art exhibition in London after attacks on paintings by Maqbool Fida Hussain, a 90-year-old, the &#8220;Picasso of India&#8221;, who has been targetered in recent years by Hindu extremists. A major exhibition, by an important international artist, has been forced to close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}