{"id":31018,"date":"2014-06-22T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=31018"},"modified":"2014-06-22T19:31:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T23:31:48","slug":"mosque-and-prayer-room-attacked-in-jaffna-after-tamils-and-muslims-unitedly-demonstrated-against-anti-muslim-violence-in-aluthgama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=31018","title":{"rendered":"Mosque and Prayer Room Attacked in Jaffna After Tamils and Muslims Unitedly Demonstrated Against Anti-Muslim Violence in Aluthgama."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While anti-Muslim attacks continue to occur in the Southern provinces of Sri Lanka two  anti-Muslim attacks were reported in the Northern town of Jaffna in a fresh turn of events.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31031\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JD062314.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31031\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JD062314.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstration in Jaffna-pic: TamilWin\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31031\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstration in Jaffna-pic: TamilWin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The prayer room used by Muslims for worship at the University of Jaffna in Thirunelvely was vandalised during night by unknown persons who poured waste engine oiland defiled the premises.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate development a gang of helmeted hoodlums riding on motor cycles thre stones on a Mosque in Jaffna after nighfall and damaged several windows.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Kamal Mosque situated  in the &#8220;Muslim Vattaaram&#8221;(Muslim ward)of Jaffna near the Jaffna-Manipay road was the Islamic place of worship that came under attack. No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>A large crowd of Muslims gathered at the premises immediately.Police and Military personnel also arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Both attacks occurred in the wake of a joint protest demonstration held by Tamils and Muslims in Jaffna condemning the attacks on Muslims in Aluthgama and Beruwela.<\/p>\n<p>Political observers opine that the anti-Muslim attacks in Jaffna were perpetrated by sinister elements unhappy over the ethnic unity displayed by Tamils and Muslims of Jaffna in jointly condemning the Aluthgama anti-Muslim violence.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the expectations of those who launched the attacks relations between Tamils and Muslims have not been strained as most Muslims are aware of the &#8220;forces&#8221; behind the attacks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton31018\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D31018&amp;text=Mosque%20and%20Prayer%20Room%20Attacked%20in%20Jaffna%20After%20Tamils%20and%20Muslims%20Unitedly%20Demonstrated%20Against%20Anti-Muslim...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While anti-Muslim attacks continue to occur in the Southern provinces of Sri Lanka two anti-Muslim attacks were reported in the Northern town of Jaffna in a fresh turn of events. The prayer room used by Muslims for worship at the University of Jaffna in Thirunelvely was vandalised during night by unknown persons who poured waste &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=31018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mosque and Prayer Room Attacked in Jaffna After Tamils and Muslims Unitedly Demonstrated Against Anti-Muslim Violence in Aluthgama.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31033,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions\/31033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}