{"id":1136,"date":"2008-01-18T20:15:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T12:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/18\/to-boycott-or-not-what-say-you\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T22:38:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T14:38:51","slug":"to-boycott-or-not-what-say-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/religion\/2008\/01\/18\/to-boycott-or-not-what-say-you\/","title":{"rendered":"to boycott or not, what say you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we can see both sides arguments:<\/p>\n<p>Boycott<br \/>\n&#8211; retaliation against the temple committee for backstabbing the community on 25 November by calling the police<br \/>\n&#8211; Boycott batu caves does not mean boycott Thaipusam or Lord Muruga<br \/>\n&#8211; Going to Batu Caves will be misused by MIC as sign of support for Samy Vellu and MIC<br \/>\n&#8211; as a support for Hindraf ISA detainees<br \/>\n&#8211; show support to other temples who may be in danger of demolition<\/p>\n<p>No to Boycott<br \/>\n&#8211; don&#8217;t politicise religion<br \/>\n&#8211; don&#8217;t show anger against Batu Caves or Thaipusam<br \/>\n&#8211; it is disrespect\/sin against religion (not sure how true this is)<br \/>\n&#8211; use other methods to show displeasure towards temple committee\/Samy vellu\/MIC<br \/>\n&#8211; even Hindraf leaders did prayer at Batu Caves after 25\/11<br \/>\n&#8211; go there, but don&#8217;t spend money as a show of support<\/p>\n<p>Well, there can be other reasons for both parties, so let&#8217;s make it short:<\/p>\n<p>Please cast your vote at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poobalan.com\/blog\">http:\/\/www.poobalan.com\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we can see both sides arguments: Boycott &#8211; retaliation against the temple committee for backstabbing the community on 25 November by calling the police &#8211; Boycott batu caves does not mean boycott Thaipusam or Lord Muruga &#8211; Going to Batu Caves will be misused by MIC as sign of support for Samy Vellu and MIC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[38,27,37],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-religion","tag-batu-caves","tag-protest","tag-thaipusam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}