{"id":41416,"date":"2026-09-15T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=41416"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:38:11","slug":"friends-of-path-announces-meet-and-greet-with-governor-hochul-on-september-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/41416","title":{"rendered":"Friends of PATH announces \u201cmeet and greet\u201d with Governor Hochul on September 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: Friends of PATH has announced that a &#8220;meet-and-greet&#8221; event between New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and the Muslim community will take place on September 18.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As election campaign gears up in New York, Muslim voters are facing campaigns characterized, in part, by hate speech and anti-Islamic sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim community of Long Island is preparing to voice its concerns to Governor Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of PATH has organized meet and greet event with Governo Hochul on September 18, from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM at &#8220;Marquee on Broadway&#8221; in Hicksville.<\/p>\n<p>According to organizers\u2014including prominent Pakistani-American political and social figures Ghulam Sarwar, Ali Mohammad, and Mohammad Ashraf Azmi\u2014Muslim voters will use this meeting to express their concerns regarding the promotion of hateful rhetoric and Islamophobia by certain candidates during the current election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers say that while everyone has the right to political disagreement, there is no place for hate-mongering. They urge the community to participate in large numbers to ensure the Governor is effectively apprised of the prevailing electoral and political situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: Friends of PATH has announced that a &#8220;meet-and-greet&#8221; event between New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and the Muslim community will take place on September 18. As election campaign gears up in New York, Muslim voters are facing campaigns characterized, in part, by hate speech and anti-Islamic sentiment. The Muslim community of Long Island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41419,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41416\/revisions\/41419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}