{"id":89189,"date":"2019-05-21T15:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89189"},"modified":"2019-05-21T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T23:10:13","slug":"muslims-love-swords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/21\/muslims-love-swords\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSLIMS LOVE SWORDS .."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In my\nneighbourhood area in Preston Road Wembley Harrow there is a shop where you\nfind everything you require .Western Union money transfer also in the shop\nselling every hardware item you need .Shop is owned by a Muslin boy from\nKurunagala who works day and night with Sinhalese staff. Last year I walked\ninto the shop to buy some items and asked the owner whether he can get me a\nlong bladed sword like machete as I needed to crop the trees in our garden .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He surprised\nmy when he bent down and pulled a 3 feet long sword like knife and gave to me\nand charged me 17 pounds .He said that h will get one for his use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of\ninterest I askes him why he does not show in in the racks and he said it is\nprohibited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I confronted\nhim and asked why does he keeps one under his counter and he promptly replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He needs to\nfight anyone who will come to the shop to harm him or the shop staff .He used\nit once to scare of some mugger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not a\nsurprise that they keep swords but the question is how many you need to protect\nyour self?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 In my neighbourhood area in Preston Road Wembley Harrow there is a shop where you find everything you require .Western Union money transfer also in the shop selling every hardware item you need .Shop is owned by a Muslin boy from Kurunagala who works day and night with Sinhalese staff. Last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89189","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\/89189","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=89189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}