{"id":1206,"date":"2008-01-28T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T04:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/01\/28\/samy-and-candles\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T23:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:38:37","slug":"samy-and-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/01\/28\/samy-and-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"Samy and candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t they have better things to do?<\/p>\n<p>Temples and candles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralism.org\/news\/article.php?id=4932\" target=\"_blank\">Fremont Hindu Temple and Cultural Center<\/a> (Aug 2003)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blackcountry\/content\/articles\/2005\/11\/02\/diwali_wolverhampton_feature.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Shri Krishnan Temple, Wolverhampton<\/a> (Oct 2005)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if candles are considered desecrating temples.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As for using temples for political talks, you can see one every <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/religion\/2008\/01\/24\/thaipusam-day-part-2\/\">Thaipusam<\/a> at Batu Caves.<\/p>\n<p>Samy slams candlelight vigil at temples<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/1\/28\/nation\/20146378&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEREMBAN: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has condemned the acts of certain quarters who have been on a &#8220;candlelight vigil&#8221; at Hindu temples to protest the detention of five Hindraf leaders under the Internal Security Act.<\/p>\n<p>Describing this as a &#8220;desecration of a place of worship&#8221;, the Works Minister said those responsible should stop doing so. &#8220;Hindus do not use candles in temples &#8230; we use the kuttu vilaku (oil lamp). From the feedback I got, (other) Hindus are very unhappy over this,&#8221; he said after presenting scrolls to 452 Tafe College graduates here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been told that the opposition have also begun holding political ceramah at these temples. &#8220;This is not right because they are hurting the feelings of Hindus,&#8221; he said, chiding the DAP and PKR for not doing anything for the benefit of the Indian community.<\/p>\n<p>Samy Velly also chided certain individuals among Barisan Nasional component parties for conducting surveys amongst Indians on their support for the MIC. &#8220;I want to tell these people to stay out. The MIC can handle the voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Monday\/National\/2143583\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">NST<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>He also blasted the opposition for disrespecting a Hindu temple in Ipoh by lighting candles inside the temple during Thaipusam while protesting against the detention of Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leaders under the Internal Security Act.<\/p>\n<p>In Kuala Lumpur, Samy Vellu demanded that opposition leader Lim Kit Siang apologise to the Indian community for asking the people to light candles in a temple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hindus never hold vigils in a temple. It is against our beliefs. Kit Siang does not know anything about the religion, so he shouldn&#8217;t ask people to do things against the faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t they have better things to do? Temples and candles: Fremont Hindu Temple and Cultural Center (Aug 2003) Shri Krishnan Temple, Wolverhampton (Oct 2005) I&#8217;m not sure if candles are considered desecrating temples.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}