{"id":2892,"date":"2003-03-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/03\/2003-03-03-minor-attack-on-hindu-temple-in-us-baffles-police\/"},"modified":"2003-03-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-03T12:00:00","slug":"2003-03-03-minor-attack-on-hindu-temple-in-us-baffles-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/03\/2003-03-03-minor-attack-on-hindu-temple-in-us-baffles-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Attack on Hindu Temple In US Baffles Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/us\/2003\/mar\/01us1.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, March 1, 2003: The police and FBI are at a loss why a fire bomb was thrown at the Hindu temple in St. Louis, Missouri, on the night of February 22. Officials have registered the attack as a hate crime case. &#8220;It seemed to be a crude bomb or Molotov cocktail, which set fire to the front door of the temple,&#8221; Krishna Reddy, president of the temple trustee board, said. The fire quickly burned itself out, charring a four-foot section of the door. The attack happened after midnight, Reddy thinks. Temple officials discovered the attack when they arrived to open the shrine the next morning. &#8220;There are four priests living in the compound a little behind the temple. They did not hear anything that night,&#8221; Reddy said. &#8220;We are getting a lot of support from the police, FBI and other officials. There is no panic in the community,&#8221; Jiwan Singla, chairman of the temple building committee, said. &#8220;Everything is normal, but we are increasing security,&#8221; he said. Established 13 years ago, it is one of the largest temples in the US, serving more than 8,000 families. &#8220;The attack has not changed anything,&#8221; Singla noted. All the activities will go on as scheduled, he said.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, March 1, 2003: The police and FBI are at a loss why a fire,&#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-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","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=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}