{"id":107150,"date":"2020-09-30T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T23:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107150"},"modified":"2020-09-30T16:42:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T23:42:40","slug":"multi-culturealism-creates-conflict-sometimes-leading-to-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/30\/multi-culturealism-creates-conflict-sometimes-leading-to-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi &#8211; culturealism creates conflict sometimes leading to terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The moral obligation for all people living in Sri Lanka is\nto live in harmony with each other and particularly in harmony with the pre-\ndominant religious culture and beliefs and not hurt the moral sensitivities of\nthe majority.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This requirement prevails in all Countries influenced by\nAbrahamic religions, especially in Islamic countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This condition also prevailed in Sri Lanka prior to 1505.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When in Rome do as the Romans is a wise way to avoid\nconflict between communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This requirement needs to be stressed by the State in\nSchools, Media, Public Relations, and be made part of public policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We, in Sri Lanka, can no longer afford to take chances with\nfailed ideas and experiments not of our own making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senaka Weeraratna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna The moral obligation for all people living in Sri Lanka is to live in harmony with each other and particularly in harmony with the pre- dominant religious culture and beliefs and not hurt the moral sensitivities of the majority.&nbsp; This requirement prevails in all Countries influenced by Abrahamic religions, especially in Islamic countries.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}