{"id":117705,"date":"2013-12-31T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T09:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=117705"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:39:26","slug":"suffi-muslim-shrine-at-potuvil-attacked-by-another-islamic-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/suffi-muslim-shrine-at-potuvil-attacked-by-another-islamic-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffi Muslim Shrine At Potuvil Attacked By Another Islamic Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim shrine at Potuvil, belonging to the Suffi sect was attacked by another Islamic group last Friday (27) with the promise that a mosque would be built on that spot within three months, the Island reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_117707\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Suffi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117707\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-117707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Suffi-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"File photo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Suffi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Suffi-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-117707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the newspaper, the Chairman of the Islamic Solidarity Front (ISF) Reyyaz Salley told them that about 50 to 60 persons had attacked the 300-year-old shrine.\u00a0He claimed about 10 to 15 shrines and 25 mosques had been attacked all over the country by the extremists in recent years.\u00a0Potuvil police said they were investigating the incident.\u00a0Salley also said that the Wakfu Board, had jurisdiction over religious issues but it had been dissolved two month back, and a new board had not been appointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":117707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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