{"id":97866,"date":"2013-07-30T02:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=97866"},"modified":"2013-08-02T02:05:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T20:35:32","slug":"gang-rape-is-buddhism-opposed-to-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gang-rape-is-buddhism-opposed-to-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang-Rape: Is Buddhism Opposed To Self-Defense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years after the murder of Mia Zapata inspired a self-defense movement in Seattle, Indians are responding to a widely-reported <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=gang-rape&amp;x=5&amp;y=6\">gang-rape<\/a><\/span> case in Delhi\u00a0by joining similar violence prevention courses. Only they\u2019re doing so over the advice of religious opponents, who echo a famous Indian guru: the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Buddha&amp;x=6&amp;y=7\">Buddha<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/sexandgender\/7198\/is_buddhism_opposed_to_self_defense_\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gang-rape-is-buddhism-opposed-to-self-defense\/no-rape\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97867\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97867\" title=\"no rape\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/no-rape.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/no-rape.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/no-rape-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":97867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gang-Rape: Is Buddhism Opposed To Self-Defense? 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