{"id":9021,"date":"2010-05-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/01\/hindu-temple-claims-vandalism-is-actually-an-attack-on-religion\/"},"modified":"2010-05-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-temple-claims-vandalism-is-actually-an-attack-on-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/01\/hindu-temple-claims-vandalism-is-actually-an-attack-on-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Temple Claims Vandalism is Actually an &#8220;Attack On Religion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macarthuradvertiser.com.au\/news\/local\/news\/general\/hindu-temple-claims-attack-on-religion\/1815138.aspx\">www.macarthuradvertiser.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NSW, AUSTRALIA, April 28, 2010: It started off as a few graffiti tags on the side of Mukti Gupteshwar Mandir Shiva Hindu Temple in Eagleview Road, Minto. But last week things got worse. Offenders destroyed a 200-meter fence and forced their way into the temple before smashing light fixtures on Monday, April 19. They damaged property worth more than $5000.<\/p>\n<p>Minto Hindu Society president Prem Misra said local religious followers were being victimized. &#8220;We have spent more than $3000 on community activities and to cop this sort of treatment is nonsense,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t understand why they would deliberately do this. Why does it keep happening to us? One can only conclude this is an attack on our religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The temple was built in 1991 after Campbelltown Council controversially approved the development in a scenic protection area. The proposal included a temple structure built partially below ground level to give the illusion that the building was underground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.macarthuradvertiser.com.au NSW, AUSTRALIA, April 28, 2010: It started off as a few graffiti tags on the side of Mukti,&#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-9021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021","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=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}