{"id":90188,"date":"2019-04-25T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/25\/tory-candidates-suspended-over-racist-and-inflammatory-posts\/"},"modified":"2019-04-25T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:37:43","slug":"tory-candidates-suspended-over-racist-and-inflammatory-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=90188","title":{"rendered":"Tory candidates suspended over racist and inflammatory posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates were among 40 new self-professed Tory members who shared or \u2018liked\u2019 racist or Islamophobic Facebook posts Two Conservative local election candidates and a woman honoured with an MBE are among 40 new self-professed Tory members who have shared or endorsed racist and inflammatory Facebook posts including Islamophobic material, the Guardian has learned.The torrent of racist posts include references to Muslims as \u201cbin bag wearing individuals\u201d, calls for the \u201ccult\u201d of Islam to be banned and the Qur\u2019an being branded an \u201cevil book\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/apr\/25\/tory-candidates-suspended-over-racist-and-inflammatory-posts\" target=\"_blank\">Tory candidates suspended over racist and inflammatory posts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates were among 40 new self-professed Tory members who shared or \u2018liked\u2019 racist or Islamophobic Facebook posts Two Conservative local election candidates and a woman honoured with an MBE are among 40 new self-professed Tory members who have shared or endorsed racist and inflammatory Facebook posts including Islamophobic material, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}