{"id":110827,"date":"2021-01-20T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110827"},"modified":"2021-01-20T16:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:52:53","slug":"muslims-reluctant-to-go-to-hospital-rishad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/20\/muslims-reluctant-to-go-to-hospital-rishad\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims reluctant to go to hospital &#8211; Rishad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Muslims have become reluctant to go to hospital as they are being cremated if they succumb to COVID-19, MP Rishad Bathiudeen told Parliament today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Muslims are scared to go to hospital as they are afraid that they will be cremated if they succumb to COVID-19,&#8221; Mr. Bathiudeen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some Government MPs are misinterpreting the holy Quran saying it has not forbidden cremation. One has to read the Quran in an honest manner to understand the truth,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Muslims have got saddened, as an infant who succumbed to COVID-19 last Saturday has been cremated,&#8221; he also said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also he said Muslim businessmen have been affected by the isolation of Muslim areas including Kattankudy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Muslims have become reluctant to go to hospital as they are being cremated if they succumb to COVID-19, MP Rishad Bathiudeen told Parliament today. &#8220;Muslims are scared to go to hospital as they are afraid that they will be cremated if they succumb to COVID-19,&#8221; Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110827","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=110827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}