{"id":1550,"date":"2015-09-15T16:01:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/1550-india-muslims-angry-over-eid-holiday-ban\/"},"modified":"2015-09-15T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T16:01:04","slug":"india-muslims-angry-over-eid-holiday-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/1550-india-muslims-angry-over-eid-holiday-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"India Muslims angry over Eid holiday ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><span style=\"font-size: 9.12px; line-height: 11.856px;\">The order has upset Muslim groups, who threatened to go to court against the move<\/span><\/address>\n<p> <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As world Muslims prepare to celebrate Eidal-Adha this year, Indian Muslim students and teachers might be forced to stay in school after authorities in north Indian state of Rajasthan asked schools and colleges not to declare the day as a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>A Muslim professor argued that the government\u2019s move was a clear attempt at \u2018saffronization\u2019 of schools, the term used by critics to describe pro-Hindu moves.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial order came as the government in Rajasthan ordered schools and colleges to prepare for blood donation camps on September 25, to mark the birth anniversary of DeenDayalUpadhyaya, an icon of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological mentor RashtriyaSangh.<\/p>\n<p>Coinciding with the Eid Al-Adha, the day usually deemed holiday, the decision was therefore issued to cancel the Muslims&#8217; holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The order has upset Muslim groups, who threatened to go to court against the move to cancel the holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The order has upset Muslim groups, who threatened to go to court against the move \u00a0 As world Muslims prepare to celebrate Eidal-Adha this year, Indian Muslim students and teachers might be forced to stay in school after authorities in north Indian state of Rajasthan asked schools and colleges not to declare the day as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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