{"id":52267,"date":"2016-02-25T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52267"},"modified":"2016-02-25T06:31:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T13:31:10","slug":"ban-animal-and-human-torture-near-places-of-religious-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/25\/ban-animal-and-human-torture-near-places-of-religious-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban Animal and Human Torture Near Places of Religious Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The attempt to legally ban animal sacrifice at places of religious worship is a welcome effort. The disgusting and uncivilised practice of sacrificing animals in religious rituals has no established history in Sri Lanka. It amounts to torture of animals. It is ridiculous to allow the torture and killing of animals in the name of religion when even butchers are subjected to a higher degree of care of animals. Torture of animals must be banned totally. Killing of animals must be done only at licenced abattoirs. No religious place of worship should be considered an abattoir.<\/p>\n<p>Torture of humans must also be banned. It does not matter it is self-harm as other forms of self-harm is illegal. Body piercing, walking on hot surfaces and hanging from the skin are some disgusting and uncivilised practices found near the Kataragama shrine. These arouse disgust in onlookers and must be banned as in most countries. This practice has no historical roots in Lanka and relate to African and South Indian practices. Even these countries have banned such voluntary human torture.<\/p>\n<p>Other forms of human torture found among Christian communities in the Philippines and Shia Muslims must not be allowed to be replicated in Sri Lanka. All forms of torture (animal and human) and killing must be banned from places of religious worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara The attempt to legally ban animal sacrifice at places of religious worship is a welcome effort. The disgusting and uncivilised practice of sacrificing animals in religious rituals has no established history in Sri Lanka. It amounts to torture of animals. It is ridiculous to allow the torture and killing of animals in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52267","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=52267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}