{"id":34136,"date":"2012-08-20T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/11_year_old_pakistani_christian_girl_accused_of_quran_burning_could_face_de\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:00:37","slug":"11_year_old_pakistani_christian_girl_accused_of_quran_burning_could_face_de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34136","title":{"rendered":"11 Year Old Pakistani Christian girl accused of Qur&#39;an burning could face death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old Christian Pakistani girl could face the death penalty under the country&#8217;s notorious blasphemy laws, after she was accused by her neighbours of deliberately burning sacred Islamic texts.<\/p>\n<p>Rifta Masih was arrested on Thursday, after complaints against her prompted angry demonstrations. Asif Ali Zardari, the president, has ordered the interior ministry to investigate the case.<\/p>\n<p>As communal tensions continued to rise, about 900 Christians living on the outskirts of Islamabad have been ordered to leave a neighbourhood where they have lived for almost two decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/aug\/19\/pakistan-christian-tensions-quran-burning-allegations\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old Christian Pakistani girl could face the death penalty under the country&#8217;s notorious blasphemy laws, after she was accused by her neighbours of deliberately burning sacred Islamic texts. Rifta Masih was arrested on Thursday, after complaints against her prompted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34136\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,101,161,426,114,659,154,155,343,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34136","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-children","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34136","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=34136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}