{"id":91955,"date":"2019-08-04T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91955"},"modified":"2019-08-04T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T22:05:03","slug":"extremists-in-every-country-should-be-removed-from-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/04\/extremists-in-every-country-should-be-removed-from-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremists in every country should be removed from society"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Last few days America is going thru difficult times after many people died due to the shooting by white supremacists Some blame Trump for the massacre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sri Lanka also had similar situations where Some extremist elements massacred innocent people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who did people blame?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously the current leadership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years back we had skirmishes in Aluthgama and Kandy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again people blamed the leaders for going soft on extremism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irrespective of whether extremists are Buddhist, Muslims or Christians it is essential that tough laws are applied again any mushrooming extremists <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Releasing any of them to society after incarceration is not\nadvisable&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera Last few days America is going thru difficult times after many people died due to the shooting by white supremacists Some blame Trump for the massacre. In Sri Lanka also had similar situations where Some extremist elements massacred innocent people. Who did people blame? Obviously the current leadership. A few years back [&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-91955","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\/91955","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=91955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}