{"id":5519,"date":"2016-06-11T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=5515&amp;preview_id=5515"},"modified":"2016-06-11T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T12:01:05","slug":"malaysia-two-hindu-temples-vandalised-in-hate-crime-terror-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=5519","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: Two Hindu Temples Vandalised in Hate Crime \u2013 Terror News Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Hindu temple was today vandalised in Malaysia\u2019s Penang state by unidentified persons who damaged the deities, a top state official said, less than a week after a similiar incident in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Dharma Munisverar temple was reported to have been damaged in today\u2019s incident though the extent of the damage was yet to be ascertained, Deputy Chief Minister Dr P Ramasamy said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second such incident involving a Hindu temple in Butterworth town.<\/p>\n<p>The Munisverar temple is located about one km away from the Muthumariamman Temple in Penanti Estate, Ara Kuda which was reportedly vandalised last Saturday, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A police report was lodged by the temple authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s 28 million population comprises eight per cent ethnic Indians mostly Hindu Tamils.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, two statues of deities were vandalised in Ara Kuda, prompting the temple committee to look into installing closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras for security purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was believed to be a hate crime as no items were stolen from the temple.<\/p>\n<p>Ramasamy said he had written to Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar urging the police to investigate the incident last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrorscoop.com\/malaysia-two-hindu-temples-vandalised-hate-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malaysia: Two Hindu Temples Vandalised in Hate Crime \u2013 Terror News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hindu temple was today vandalised in Malaysia\u2019s Penang state by unidentified persons who damaged the deities, a top state official said, less than a week after a similiar incident in the area. The Sri Dharma Munisverar temple was reported to have been damaged in today\u2019s incident though the extent of the damage was yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1579,187,1480,66,1254,1580,1203,1581,1582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}