{"id":11252,"date":"2018-10-29T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=11252"},"modified":"2018-10-29T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:29:47","slug":"lgbt-groups-condemn-devastating-mass-shooting-in-pittsburgh-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/lgbt-groups-condemn-devastating-mass-shooting-in-pittsburgh-synagogue\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT groups condemn \u2018devastating\u2019 mass shooting in Pittsburgh Synagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu (Pahichan) October 29 – LGBT+ and human rights groups have condemned the devastating\u00a0mass-shooting<\/a>\u00a0that took place yesterday in\u00a0Pittsburgh, USA<\/a>,\u00a0which resulted in the deaths of 11 Jewish people in a Synagogue.<\/p>\n

Six more people were injured in the mass-shooting, which the Anti-Defamation League say is the deadliest attack on Jews in US history. Police are treating it as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

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The suspect has been named as Robert Bowers, who has been charged with murder and will face 29 criminal counts.<\/p>\n

Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD<\/a>, said the news of the shooting was \u201cdevastating and infuriating.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody should ever be attacked in their place of worship. Our hearts go out to the victims and their loved ones and GLAAD stands with you against anti-Semitism and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Janson Wu, executive director of GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders said they were \u201csaddened and horrified\u201d by the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hearts and our thoughts go out to the families and friends of those who lost loved ones, those who were hurt by this violence, and to all those in our Jewish communities who are reeling from this news.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe denounce hate in all its forms and condemn the anti-Semitism that motivated this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

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People gather for a interfaith candlelight vigil (Jeff Swensen\/Getty)<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He added that it is the country\u2019s \u201ccollective responsibility\u201d to mend the world by ending gun violence and erasing \u201chateful rhetoric\u201d that leads to attacks like the one in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

The Human Rights Campaign, which fights for LGBT+ rights<\/a>, released a statement from President Chad Griffin, who said the attack was \u201chorrific\u201d and had been motivated by anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hearts are with the community of the Tree of Life Synagogue, the first responders who bravely rushed into danger to save lives, the people of Pittsburgh, and all those impacted by this tragic act of hate violence.<\/p>\n

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People gather for a interfaith candlelight vigil (Jeff Swensen\/Getty)<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAfter Newtown, our nation called for action. After Tucson, Virginia Tech, Aurora, San Bernardino, Charleston, and Alexandria, we called for action. After the shooting at Pulse Nightclub more than two years ago, we called for action. After Parkland and Las Vegas, we called for action.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet, in the face of these mounting tragedies, many of our lawmakers have refused to act on meaningful gun safety legislation. And it is no surprise how these tragedies so often intersect with vile hatred, this time against the Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin also pointed out that this latest attack comes more than two years after 49 lives were lost after a mass shooting in gay club Pulse nightclub in Orlando.<\/p>\n

That mass-shooting \u2013 which was one of the deadliest in US history \u2013 will be on the minds of many in the LGBT+ community today.<\/p>\n

Source : Pink News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu (Pahichan) October 29 – LGBT+ and human rights groups have condemned the devastating\u00a0mass-shooting\u00a0that took place yesterday in\u00a0Pittsburgh, USA,\u00a0which resulted in the deaths of 11 Jewish people in a Synagogue.
\nSix more people were injured in the mass-shooting, which the Anti-Defamation League say is the deadliest attack on Jews in US history. Police are treating it as a hate crime.
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\nBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP\/Getty
\nThe suspect has been named as Robert Bowers, who has been charged with murder and will face 29 criminal counts.
\nSarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD, said the news of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,621,490,11],"tags":[524],"class_list":["post-11252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-lgbt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11254,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252\/revisions\/11254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}