{"id":24935,"date":"2011-03-07T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_archbishop_warns_pakistan_to_shield_christians_from_persecutio\/"},"modified":"2011-03-07T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T06:00:41","slug":"london_times_archbishop_warns_pakistan_to_shield_christians_from_persecutio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24935","title":{"rendered":"(London Times) Archbishop warns Pakistan to shield Christians from persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<i>This article is based on the piece just preceding it posted on the blog below&#8211;KSH<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>One prominent figure on Pakistan\u2019s religious Right, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of Jamiat Ulema-iIslam-Fazl, yesterday warned the West not to use international disgust at Mr Bhatti\u2019s murder to put pressure on them to moderate their behaviour. He said: \u201cI have already condemned the killing of Shahbaz Bhatti in the Parliament but it seems as if an international lobby is using such incidents to gain a leverage on religious parties.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister, told a memorial service for Mr Bhatti at the weekend that the Government \u201cwill try our utmost to bring the culprits to justice\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>But Dr Williams makes clear that patience in Christian-dominated donor countries is wearing out. \u201cTo the majority in Pakistan who have elected a Government which, whatever its dramatic shortcomings, is pledged to resist extremism, we have surely to say, \u201d\u02dcDo not imagine that this can be managed or tolerated\u2019.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article2936409.ece\">Read it all (requires subscription)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This article is based on the piece just preceding it posted on the blog below&#8211;KSH) One prominent figure on Pakistan\u2019s religious Right, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of Jamiat Ulema-iIslam-Fazl, yesterday warned the West not to use international disgust at Mr<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24935\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,42,67,201,426,114,659,155,343,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-asia","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-pakistan","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}