{"id":30698,"date":"2012-08-15T11:02:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30698"},"modified":"2012-08-15T11:02:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T18:02:56","slug":"8-attacks-on-american-mosques-in-11-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/08\/15\/8-attacks-on-american-mosques-in-11-days\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Attacks on American Mosques in 11 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/uzma_kolsy.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>On the heels of the shooting at the Sikh Gurdwara in Oak Creek Wisconsin where Army Veteran Wade Michael Page shot and killed 6 people and then turned the gun on himself, the country is experiencing a wave of vandalism and attacks against Islamic community centers, schools and mosques.  With little reporting in the mainstream media, the attacks have been scattered around the country. <\/p>\n<p>On August 15, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with reporter and activist Uzma Kolsy about the mosque attacks. Uzma is the former Managing Editor of InFocus News, the largest newspaper in California for the Muslim American community. Her recent article in Salon.com is entitled, Eight Attacks, 11 Days<\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HR1E1tF2SZs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/08\/14\/eight_attacks_11_days\/\">Click here<\/a> to read Uzma Kolsy&#8217;s article. <\/p>\n<p>Visit the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair.com\">www.cair.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This interview was recorded by Bipasha Shom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of the shooting at the Sikh Gurdwara in Oak Creek Wisconsin where Army Veteran Wade Michael Page shot and killed 6 people and then turned the gun on himself, the country is experiencing a wave of vandalism and attacks against Islamic community centers, schools and mosques. With little reporting in the mainstream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}