{"id":16296,"date":"2019-02-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/02\/01\/kentucky-hindu-temple-vandalized-with-crosses-christian-phrases\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T12:00:00","slug":"kentucky-hindu-temple-vandalized-with-crosses-christian-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/02\/01\/kentucky-hindu-temple-vandalized-with-crosses-christian-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Hindu Temple Vandalized with Crosses, Christian Phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/swaminarayan-temple-louisville-vandalism_us_5c534fb6e4b043e25b1a6aad\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/5c5385d9250000b5017dbaf8.png?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, February 1, 2019 (Huffington Post): A Hindu temple in Kentucky was vandalized this week with hateful messages, including some promoting Christianity, in an incident local police are calling a hate crime. Sometime between Sunday and Tuesday morning, a vandal or vandals broke through a window at Louisville&#8217;s Swaminarayan Temple, the Courier Journal reports, leaving glass shattered on the floor. Black paint was sprayed onto a poster depicting a religious figure, and the temple&#8217;s walls were covered with black crosses and phrases such as &#8220;Jesus Is The Only Lord&#8221; and &#8220;Jesus Is All Mighty.&#8221; A knife was reportedly plunged into a chair in the temple.<\/p>\n<p>A message spray-painted onto a bulletin board at the temple read had the word &#8220;foreign&#8221; followed by an expletive, Fox affiliate WDRB reports. Temple spokesperson Raj Patel told the news station that this last message indicates that the vandalism was &#8220;not about just a god.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s about a race or someone&#8217;s skin color,&#8221; he said. Patel said his community, consisting of 60 to 100 Sunday worshippers, is deeply saddened by the incident. The community has been meeting in the building, a former church, for about five years. Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad described the vandalism as a &#8220;hate crime&#8221; during a press conference on Wednesday. He said investigators have not yet identified any suspects. Police will be at the temple on Sunday to ensure that worshippers are safe, he said.<\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;source&#8221; including a short local news video.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, February 1, 2019 (Huffington Post): A Hindu temple in Kentucky was vandalized this week with hateful messages,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}