{"id":90972,"date":"2019-07-02T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90972"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:34:02","slug":"the-sheep-is-hanged-as-a-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/02\/the-sheep-is-hanged-as-a-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SHEEP IS HANGED AS A LAMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A number of prominent personalities who\npounce on the Sinhala Buddhists at the drop of a hat, has denounced vehemently\nMahanayke thero of Asgiriya regarding his recent statement alleging that he\nwanted \u2018 the Muslims to be stoned . Among, those who reviled was one prominent\nNGO activist &nbsp;who wanted legal action be\ntaken against the Mahanyake for his \u2018hate speech\u2019!. &nbsp;Some leading Muslim spokespersons such as\nAssad Sally too adverted to the allegation that Muslims should be stoned and\ncondemned the Mahanyake thero,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, a very few had listened properly to\nMaha Nyake thero\u2019s said speech. He DOES NOT AT ALL mention that the Muslims\nshould be stoned. Instead he refers to the suspected actions of some Muslim\nshop owners and a doctor in Matale who are involved in questionable practices\nand said that some women have &nbsp;said that\nthey should be stoned to death. He immediately continued his speech and said\nTHAT HE DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE PRPOSITION. He also said that if some are\ninvolved in such unsavoury practices he thinks that they deserve this\npunishment. He appealed to the Sinhala Buddhists to get together to protect\nthemselves. He mentioned that if such crimes&nbsp;\nwere committed against another ethnic group by the Sinhala Buddhists.\nthe offenders will be sliced to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maha Nyake thero NEVER MENTIONED THAT THE\nMUSLIMS SHOULD BE STONED. But, he said that if some are guilty of criminal acts\nthey have to be punished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unfortunate that the killing of\nnearly 300 people and injuring over 500 persons by the Islamic terrorists have\nbeen pushed into the oblivion and the main focus of the anti Sinhala Buddhist\nindividuals and organizations is continuing to fly off the handle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where a sheep is hanged as a lamb , the\nwhite sepulchres rule unabated,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RANJITH SOYSA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA A number of prominent personalities who pounce on the Sinhala Buddhists at the drop of a hat, has denounced vehemently Mahanayke thero of Asgiriya regarding his recent statement alleging that he wanted \u2018 the Muslims to be stoned . Among, those who reviled was one prominent NGO activist &nbsp;who wanted legal action be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90972","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=90972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}