{"id":34119,"date":"2012-08-19T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_pakistani_televangelist_is_back_on_air_raising_fears\/"},"modified":"2012-08-19T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:11:00","slug":"npr_pakistani_televangelist_is_back_on_air_raising_fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34119","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Pakistani Televangelist Is Back On Air, Raising Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Pakistan&#8217;s media has expanded in recent years, there&#8217;s been a rise in Islamic preachers with popular TV call-in talk shows. And they&#8217;ve had their share of scandal. One famous TV host fled the country after embezzlement allegations. Others are accused of spewing hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the case for Pakistan&#8217;s most popular televangelist, Aamir Liaquat, who&#8217;s just been rehired by the country&#8217;s top TV channel despite accusations that he provoked deadly attacks in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/18\/158949900\/pakistani-televangelist-is-back-on-air-raising-fears\">Read (or listen to) it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Pakistan&#8217;s media has expanded in recent years, there&#8217;s been a rise in Islamic preachers with popular TV call-in talk shows. And they&#8217;ve had their share of scandal. One famous TV host fled the country after embezzlement allegations. Others are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34119\">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":[39,50,42,201,161,426,93,155,343,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-movies-television","category-other-faiths","category-pakistan","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34119","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=34119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}