{"id":77358,"date":"2013-03-15T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T09:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=77358"},"modified":"2013-03-21T09:47:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T09:47:49","slug":"defaming-allah-in-kandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/defaming-allah-in-kandy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Defaming Allah&#8217; In Kandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to hurt the Muslims in Kandy, filthy\u00a0English wording has been\u00a0written\u00a0on the iron doors of a closed shop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/defaming-allah-in-kandy\/muslim-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77359\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-77359 lazyload\" title=\"Muslim\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Muslim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 280\/210;\" \/><\/a>So far no action has been taken whatsoever against the hardline Buddists for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=anti-Muslim+campaign&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\">these kinds of racism or activities<\/a><\/span> carried out against Muslims or Islam, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaffnamuslim.com\/\">Jaffnamuslim.com<\/a><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing a report the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Centre+for+Policy+Alternatives&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\">C<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">entre for Policy Alternatives<\/span><\/a> \u00a0\u00a0last week said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/65-cases-of-attacks-on-places-of-religious-worship-in-post-war-sri-lanka\/\">65 cases of attacks<\/a><\/span> on religious places of worship between May 2009 and January 2013. Direct attacks have been reported from all provinces of Sri Lanka, making clear that the threat is not restricted to particular areas. Most of the reported incidents were from the Western province (16), followed by the Eastern province (12), the Southern province (11) and the North-Western province (9).<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago\u00a0Mahara mosque also vandalised.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76246\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksa-should-address-the-nation-denouncing-the-anti-muslim-campaign-and-its-sponsors\/mahara-mosque-03rd-march-mahara-mosque-vandalised\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76246\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76246\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76246 lazyload\" title=\"Mahara mosque - 03rd March Mahara mosque - vandalised\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Mahara-mosque-03rd-March-Mahara-mosque-vandalised.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"217\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Mahara-mosque-03rd-March-Mahara-mosque-vandalised.jpg 435w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Mahara-mosque-03rd-March-Mahara-mosque-vandalised-300x149.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 435px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 435\/217;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mahara mosque - vandalised<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":77359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Defaming Allah&#039; In Kandy - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/defaming-allah-in-kandy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Defaming Allah&#039; 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