{"id":8551,"date":"2007-09-21T13:01:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T13:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/21\/muslim-group-issue-bollywood-star-with-fatwa\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T13:01:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T13:01:19","slug":"muslim-group-issue-bollywood-star-with-fatwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/21\/muslim-group-issue-bollywood-star-with-fatwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim group issue Bollywood star with Fatwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Salman Khan criticised for attending puja<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"272\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/SalmanKhan%27Pujacontroversy%27.jpg\"\/>FRESH from his jail hell, Bollywood star Salman Khan has walked himself into another controversy after an Indian Muslim group issued a fatwa against the troubled star for attending a Ganesh puja.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Salman, a Muslim, was pictured at the Ganesh puja at the famous Lalbagh ka Raja Ganpati Mandal in Mumbai on Wednesday alongside hundreds of other devotees. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>News items reported the star as saying: &#8220;We believe in this. The energy here is spectacular. When we were kids, we used to come here and I have come here after a long time. Whatever I wanted, I have got.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But his decision to attend the religious event has angered one Indian Muslim organisation who issued a fatwa against Salman whilst demanding he read the Islamic \u2018Kalma\u2019s\u2019 again to be deemed a Muslim. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Salman&#8217;s father Salim Khan reacted strongly to the news of the <em>fatwa:<\/em> &#8220;If these are Muslims then I don&#8217;t want to be called a Muslim. I want to know how these people are qualified to issue a <em>fatwa <\/em>against my son. I don&#8217;t think people who have issued a <em>fatwa <\/em>against Salman have anything to do with Islam; they don&#8217;t even know their religion well. Don&#8217;t they know that the Koran says &#8216; <em>sab ka khuda ek <\/em>&#8216;? <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;My family is a cosmopolitan family with members from practically every religion living under one roof. What has my son done? He has gone for an <em>aarti <\/em>which is not wrong at all. Such issues don&#8217;t even come up for discussion in our house. All I can say is that a fanatic Hindu and a fanatic Muslim only thrive and live on hatred and it is their hatred towards us that they express through such <em>fatwa<\/em>s.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salman Khan criticised for attending puja FRESH from his jail hell, Bollywood star Salman Khan has walked himself into another controversy after an Indian Muslim group issued a fatwa against the troubled star for attending a Ganesh puja. &#13; Salman, a Muslim, was pictured at the Ganesh puja at the famous Lalbagh ka Raja Ganpati [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}