{"id":89688,"date":"2019-06-01T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T23:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89688"},"modified":"2019-06-01T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T23:08:17","slug":"german-jews-warned-not-to-wear-kippas-after-rise-in-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/01\/german-jews-warned-not-to-wear-kippas-after-rise-in-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"German Jews warned not to wear kippas after rise in anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The German government&#8217;s anti-Semitism commissioner has urged\nJews to avoid wearing skullcaps in public.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>When I read above news I was wondering whether Sri Lankan\nAuthorities may contemplate to issue a advisory to Muslims also with similar\nwaning ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar&nbsp;\nwaRning has been issued to Muslim Women regarding wearing Burqa covering the\nface Soon it may be applied to Muslim men against wearing their traditional\ncap?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nrecall an anecdote in Russia about Jews ,Christians&nbsp; and Muslims started\nwearing skull caps and buddhist none .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nRussian Communist who is an atheist was leading a group of priests of Christian\n,Jew .Muslim and a Buddhist faiths&nbsp; through&nbsp; the jungle&nbsp; A\nferocious black bear started chasing them and all three other than Russian\nstarted praying .The Russian thought that praying would not help as the God was\nnowhere ,he climbed up a tree and shouted to other three to also climg the tree\n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bear\nwas trying to come up the tree and the Russian got scared and urinated ( he\nuttered Naa Hui)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next\nto him on the tree was the Jew who had some drops fallen on his heary head\n,more unrine fell on Christian and muslim also much&nbsp; more&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head\nof the buddhist was fully soaked&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anecdote\nsays that after the incident&nbsp; &nbsp;Jew shaved part of the head and\nstarted wearing a skullcaps (kippah&nbsp; &nbsp;) ,Christian who was a priest\nstarted wearing a bigger cap ( Zecchetto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;.Muslim\nshaved hair and started wearing cap&nbsp; ( Kufi\/Taqiyah) to cover the whole\nhead&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally\nbuddhist priest whose head was fully soaked decided to shave the whole head !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very\nsoon all the buddhists may have to shave their heads to identify themselves as\nbuddhists?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr\nSarath Obeysekera&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German government&#8217;s anti-Semitism commissioner has urged Jews to avoid wearing skullcaps in public. &nbsp;When I read above news I was wondering whether Sri Lankan Authorities may contemplate to issue a advisory to Muslims also with similar waning ? Similar&nbsp; waRning has been issued to Muslim Women regarding wearing Burqa covering the face Soon it [&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-89688","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\/89688","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=89688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}