{"id":6661,"date":"2019-06-20T10:40:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T10:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2019-06-20T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T10:40:44","slug":"monk-under-attack-for-promoting-hate-against-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/monk-under-attack-for-promoting-hate-against-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk under attack for promoting hate against Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A Buddhist monk has come under attack for promoting hate against Muslims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chief Prelate of the Asgiri Chapter of the Siyam Order (Nikaya), the Most Venerable Warakagoda Sri Gnanaratana Maha Thera was seen on a video urging Buddhists to boycott Muslim shops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He had also said that he backs calls to stone some Muslims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera tweeted saying true Buddhists must unite against the \u201cTalibanization\u201d of the great philosophy of Buddhism which promotes peace and love to all beings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cNo Buddhist can condone a statement to stone another human being to death, even if it emanates from the robed orders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Non-cabinet Minister, Dr. Harsha de Silva called on the monk to retract the statement condoning stoning a controversial Muslim doctor to death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Harsha de Silva said that the monk should advice other priests on the responsibility of wearing the yellow robe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Several others on social media also condemned the statement made by the monk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Buddhist monk has come under attack for promoting hate against Muslims. The Chief&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}