{"id":87479,"date":"2019-04-23T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87479"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:08:32","slug":"was-the-attack-on-innocent-sri-lankan-catholics-in-colombo-revenge-retaliation-on-mosque-attack-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/23\/was-the-attack-on-innocent-sri-lankan-catholics-in-colombo-revenge-retaliation-on-mosque-attack-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Attack on Innocent Sri Lankan Catholics in Colombo Revenge-Retaliation on Mosque Attack in New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Prof. Hudson McLean<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>After over 10 years of Peace &amp;\nHarmony, in the Island Paradise, sudden blasts killing innocent&nbsp; Easter\nSunday worshippers,&nbsp; shocked the World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The well planned, organised,\ncoordinated attack on three Churches and several hotels in different locations,\nadd to the fact, that, the attacks were professionally managed &amp; executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is dangerous to jump into hasty\nconclusions on the perpetrators, before investigations delve into details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, people should refrain\nfrom taking the Law into their own hands, but leave it to the Law Enforcement\nprofessionals to deal with it and offer maximum support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite frankly speaking, the\nretaliation against the Mosque attack was expected, even after the reaction of\nthe New Zealand Prime Minister showed immense empathy and love for those who\nsuffered from the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Sri Lankan Buddhists or\nHindu or Catholics had nothing to do with the New Zealand Mosque attack, and it\nis not in the nature of the Sri Lankans to cause such unnecessary pain, death\nand destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a massacre, an un-necessary\ntragedy on the innocent humans, specially on a Sacred Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Anthony&#8217;s Church in Colombo is a\nMiraculous Shrine visited &amp; revered by All Faiths, Buddhists, Muslim,\nHindu, who visit to Pray, Weep, Beg and Contemplate for a Miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no doubt that the entire Island\nof Sri Lanka will now Unite to Rebuild the Miraculous Church of St. Anthony, as\na Shrine of All Faiths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Express Your Opinion &#8211; Read What\nOthers Say!<br>\nThe Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.<br>\n<br>\nPlease visit -: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Hudson McLean After over 10 years of Peace &amp; Harmony, in the Island Paradise, sudden blasts killing innocent&nbsp; Easter Sunday worshippers,&nbsp; shocked the World. The well planned, organised, coordinated attack on three Churches and several hotels in different locations, add to the fact, that, the attacks were professionally managed &amp; executed. It is dangerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hudson-mclean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87479","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=87479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}