{"id":68134,"date":"2017-03-13T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=68134"},"modified":"2017-03-13T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:04:31","slug":"protest-cnns-believer-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/protest-cnns-believer-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest, against CNN\u2019s Believer Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overseas Friends of BJP has joined and participated in a protest, against CNN\u2019s controversial documentary \u201cBeliever\u201d hosted by controversial journalist Reza Aslan, along with American India Community and over 30 various social and religious organizations.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-68136\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image04.jpg\" alt=\"Protest, against CNN\u2019s Believer Documentary \" width=\"460\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image04.jpg 946w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image04-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><br \/>\nThese protests are spread-out throughout various cities including Atlanta, Houston, Washington and New York Protests, against the controversial documentary, has been reported various Indian cities including Calcutta. People were shouting slogans against CNN, such as \u201cCNN \u2013down, down\u201d, \u201cRacist \u2013 CNN\u201d, \u201cHate News &#8211; CNN\u201d and so on. Few placards were shown \u201cLimited Knowledge, Unlimited Bias \u2013that\u2019s CNN for you\u201d, \u201cRACIST CNN, STOP HATE\u201d and \u201cCNN STOP AGAINST HINDUS\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Major objections were against distasteful graphic imagery showed on CNN. Due to these inflammatory portrayals of Hindus and Indians in general may lead to more racial attacks and stereotyping of Hindu community, which is already at the receiving end of hate crimes in the USA. Recently there has been sharp increase in these racial attacks in the USA.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-68137\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image00.jpg\" alt=\"Protest, against CNN\u2019s Believer Documentary \" width=\"475\" height=\"422\" \/><br \/>\nHouston event saw many Hindu organizations coming together for this most important issue faced by the Hindu community in India. Despite inclement weather, over 50 persons gathered at Sugar Land Town square to condemn CNN for inciting #Hinduphobia. #HinduLivesMatter campaign activists asked for CNN to be shut down for fanning racism.<\/p>\n<p>Many Indian American organizations participated in a protest in front of CNN headquarters in Atlanta. They condemned the airing of the show and demanded an apology from CNN and Reza Aslan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overseas Friends of BJP has joined and participated in a protest, against CNN\u2019s controversial documentary \u201cBeliever\u201d hosted by controversial journalist Reza Aslan, along with American India Community and over 30 various social and religious organizations. These protests are spread-out throughout various cities including Atlanta, Houston, Washington and New York Protests, against the controversial documentary, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[35738,35740,9891,350,8690,35734,35736,510,35735,35737,35741,35739,4485],"class_list":["post-68134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-limited-knowledge","tag-racist-cnn","tag-atlanta","tag-bjp","tag-cnn","tag-cnns-controversial-documentary","tag-houston","tag-india","tag-journalist-reza-aslan","tag-new-york-protests","tag-stop-hate-and-cnn-stop-against-hindus","tag-unlimited-bias-thats-cnn-for-you","tag-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/5-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}