{"id":117802,"date":"2021-09-04T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T23:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117802"},"modified":"2021-09-04T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T23:38:14","slug":"is-influenced-terrorist-attack-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/04\/is-influenced-terrorist-attack-in-auckland\/","title":{"rendered":"IS  influenced Terrorist Attack In Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>As a New Zealander , I join the Prime Minister Jacinda\nArden, The NZ Police&nbsp; and the rest of New\nZealand in unreservedly condemning today\u2019s (3\/9\/21) , terrorist attack in\nAuckland that injured several.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a New Zealander of Sri Lankan origin, I condemn this\neven more ,as&nbsp; our two thousand five\nhundred year heritage and culture has largely been moulded by&nbsp; Buddhist teachings of non violence, where\nterror has no place.. On the other hand this man\u2019s terrorism,&nbsp; as you revealed by Prime Minister , has been\ninfluenced by ISIS ideology, which is entirely foreign to Sri Lankan origins.\nIn todays reporting unfortunately, when references were made to this man, his\nSri Lankan origin was given&nbsp; much more\nprominence than&nbsp; IS influence on him.\nThis was what&nbsp; mattered . &nbsp;Many of us of Sri Lankan origin feel aggrieved\nand disturbed by this as it&nbsp; casts\naspersions&nbsp; on us while&nbsp; the IS influence&nbsp; that drove him lay largely concealed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I write therefore&nbsp;\nto convey this concern of ours to the New Zealand public and authorities&nbsp; so that in future such references may be more\ntempered to reflect reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM As a New Zealander , I join the Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, The NZ Police&nbsp; and the rest of New Zealand in unreservedly condemning today\u2019s (3\/9\/21) , terrorist attack in Auckland that injured several. As a New Zealander of Sri Lankan origin, I condemn this even more ,as&nbsp; our two thousand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117802","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=117802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}