{"id":3986,"date":"2012-06-12T23:41:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T04:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2012-06-12T23:41:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T04:41:51","slug":"islamophobia-and-the-fear-of-the-other-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2012\/06\/12\/islamophobia-and-the-fear-of-the-other-in-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamophobia and the fear of &#8216;the other&#8217; in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been criticised for failing to properly address the wider &#8220;ethnic issue&#8221; in Myanmar, urged the Buddhist majority to &#8220;have sympathy for minorities&#8221; in the wake of the June 3 killings, but refuses to weigh in heavily on the debate. She justified this tentativeness by saying that her party &#8220;must cautiously avoid amplifying the situation&#8221; &#8211; that may be true, but what could also be at stake is the risk of losing support from Arakan state&#8217;s Buddhist population. More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/2012\/06\/2012610134755390151.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been criticised for failing to properly address the wider &#8220;ethnic issue&#8221; in Myanmar, urged the Buddhist majority to &#8220;have sympathy for minorities&#8221; in the wake of the June 3 killings, but refuses to weigh in heavily on the debate. She justified this tentativeness by saying that her party &#8220;must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2012\/06\/12\/islamophobia-and-the-fear-of-the-other-in-myanmar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Islamophobia and the fear of &#8216;the other&#8217; in Myanmar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}