{"id":80857,"date":"2019-04-26T10:31:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80857"},"modified":"2019-04-26T06:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T10:33:38","slug":"nyt-sri-lankan-accused-of-leading-attacks-preached-slaughter-many-dismissed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80857","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Sri Lankan Accused of Leading Attacks Preached Slaughter. Many Dismissed Him."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zaharan Hashim, a radical Muslim preacher accused of masterminding the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, never hid his hatred.<\/p>\n<p>He railed against a local performance in which Muslim girls dared to dance. When a Muslim politician held a 50th birthday party, he raged about how Western infidel traditions were poisoning his hometown, Kattankudy.<\/p>\n<p>There were, Mr. Zaharan said in one of his online sermons, three types of people: Muslims, those who had reached an accord with Muslims, and \u201cpeople who need to be killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Idolaters, he added, \u201cneed to be slaughtered wherever you see them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Zaharan has been described by Sri Lankan officials as having founded an obscure group with inchoate aims: a defacement of a Buddha statue, a diatribe against Sufi mystics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/25\/world\/asia\/sri-lanka-attacks-mastermind.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A radical preacher accused of masterminding the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka never hid his hatred. \u201cWe all underestimated him. We never thought he would do what he said.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kylj6Gk25C\">https:\/\/t.co\/kylj6Gk25C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1121643843772829702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaharan Hashim, a radical Muslim preacher accused of masterminding the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, never hid his hatred. He railed against a local performance in which Muslim girls dared to dance. When a Muslim<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80857\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,108,487,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sri-lanka","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80859,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80857\/revisions\/80859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}