{"id":80630,"date":"2018-09-01T14:48:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=80630"},"modified":"2018-09-01T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:48:29","slug":"muslims-are-not-as-bad-as-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/01\/muslims-are-not-as-bad-as-we-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims are not as bad as we\u00a0think"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>My wife who works in a private hospital \u00a0has come across a 26 year Sinhala girl who had a renal ( kindney )failure failure .She used to come to the hospital for dialysis twice a week .As the family had spent all their money ,my wife with another doctor helped them financially .They have placed an advertisement in the daily papers asking for a kidney donor .Many Sinhalese \u00a0have contacted them and requested advance money before\u00a0 they are even checked the suitability of the Kidney.<\/p>\n<p>They were contacted by a Muslim mother who had a daughter of same age and offered her kidney free of charge .Operation of transplant was done in Maligakanda hospital and operation very successful. She is doing well.<\/p>\n<p>The point I want to make is that the perception we Sinhalese have about Muslims, including the (Not so) venerable monk who jailed, is not correct . Muslims are not bad people .but Americans and Jews have created the problems for them to fight back.<\/p>\n<p>My other question is why can\u2019t all these venerable monks donate their organs to the people rather than going around the country creating a mayhem?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera My wife who works in a private hospital \u00a0has come across a 26 year Sinhala girl who had a renal ( kindney )failure failure .She used to come to the hospital for dialysis twice a week .As the family had spent all their money ,my wife with another doctor helped them financially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80630","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=80630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}