{"id":31612,"date":"2012-03-28T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/forced_conversions_hike_pakistan_minorities_fears\/"},"modified":"2012-03-28T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:00:49","slug":"forced_conversions_hike_pakistan_minorities_fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31612","title":{"rendered":"(CBS) Forced conversions hike Pakistan minorities&#39; fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu and Christian representatives say forced conversions to Islam have become the latest weapon of Islamic extremists in what they call a growing campaign against Pakistan&#8217;s religious minorities, on top of assassinations and mob intimidation of houses of worship. The groups are increasingly wondering if they still have a place in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a conspiracy that Hindus and Christians and other minorities should leave Pakistan,&#8221; says Amar Lal, the lawyer representing Kumari in the Supreme Court. &#8220;As a minority, we feel more and more insecure. It is getting worse day by day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-501712_162-57405180\/forced-conversions-hike-pakistan-minorities-fears\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu and Christian representatives say forced conversions to Islam have become the latest weapon of Islamic extremists in what they call a growing campaign against Pakistan&#8217;s religious minorities, on top of assassinations and mob intimidation of houses of worship. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31612\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,431,426,114,659,155,343,151,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-hinduism","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612","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=31612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}