{"id":2363,"date":"2025-12-08T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/umc-condemns-religiously-insensitive-posts-targeting-mayor-bensouda\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:06:32","slug":"umc-condemns-religiously-insensitive-posts-targeting-mayor-bensouda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/umc-condemns-religiously-insensitive-posts-targeting-mayor-bensouda\/","title":{"rendered":"UMC condemns \u201creligiously insensitive\u201d posts targeting Mayor Bensouda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Unite Movement for Change (UMC) has condemned a series of \u201cdisrespectful and inflammatory\u201d social media posts targeting Kanifing Mayor Talib Ahmed Bensouda and mocking both Christian and Muslim religious traditions.<\/p>\n<p>The posts, circulated by an account named Gaia\u2019s Child, digitally depict Mayor Bensouda dressed as a Christian cardinal and, in another image, show him \u201cpraying on water\u201d in a manner meant to imitate the revered moment when Serigne Touba prayed in the sea \u2014 an act held sacred by the Mouride community.<\/p>\n<p>UMC described the images as \u201chighly insensitive\u201d, saying they belittle Christian symbolism and disrespect the spiritual legacy of Serigne Touba and his followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Unite Movement for Change (UMC) has condemned a series of \u201cdisrespectful and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}