{"id":1587,"date":"2011-06-27T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/27\/the-iron-grasp-of-the-high-priest\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:31:02","slug":"the-iron-grasp-of-the-high-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/27\/the-iron-grasp-of-the-high-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"The iron grasp of the high priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/243189018\/the-iron-grasp-of-the-high-priest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/>Dawoodi Bohras have always been known for their business gene. But few know they are being choked by a tyrannical and all-powerful religious head.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/story_main50.asp?filename=Ne020711Iron.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Show original<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much of this is not new. The associations w\/  right-wing Hindu nationalists like LK Advani and Narendra Modi are icky  Real Politik. However, what the piece does not mention is that Syedna is  genuinely revered by the vast majority of Bohras and, despite all the  crap, the dissatisfaction hasn&rsquo;t been widespread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesDawoodi Bohras have always been known for their business gene. But few know they are being choked by a tyrannical and all-powerful religious head.Show original Much of this is not new. The associations w\/ right-wing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/27\/the-iron-grasp-of-the-high-priest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bohra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}