{"id":310973,"date":"2017-06-02T16:26:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/muslims-hold-demo-in-new-york-to-protest-trumps-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:26:42","slug":"muslims-hold-demo-in-new-york-to-protest-trumps-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/muslims-hold-demo-in-new-york-to-protest-trumps-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims hold demo in New York to protest Trump\u2019s rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A number of Muslims have held a demonstration outside the Trump Tower in Manhattan in New York City to protest against US President Donald Trump&#8217;s rhetoric against Islam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around 100 Muslims who were invited by two advocacy groups, MPower Change and the New York State Immigrant Action Fund, showed up for the \u201cIftar\u201d event on Thursday. The event turned into a protest rally against the president&#8217;s anti-Muslim policies.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iftar is the first meal eaten by Muslims after sunset during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fast and prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Participants prayed and shared meals as the police officers stood on Fifth Avenue, one of the busiest streets in the country, closely monitoring the area near the building.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170602\/9d57752f-37de-41f6-a306-6e76c066671f.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Muslim men and women pray during a demonstration and Iftar celebration during Ramadan outside of Trump Tower in New York, US, June 1, 2017. (Photo by Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEveryday American Muslims are confronted with bigotry and hate while commuting to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/06\/02\/523985\/Trump-tower-witnesses-Ramadan-observers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Muslims have held a demonstration outside the Trump Tower in Manhattan in New York City to protest against US President Donald Trump&#8217;s rhetoric against Islam. Around 100 Muslims who were invited by two advocacy groups, MPower Change and the New York State Immigrant Action Fund, showed up for the \u201cIftar\u201d event on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}