{"id":38224,"date":"2013-05-10T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_battered_and_bullied_pakistans_religious_minorities_say_they_have_little\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T01:00:49","slug":"ap_battered_and_bullied_pakistans_religious_minorities_say_they_have_little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38224","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Battered and bullied, Pakistan\u2019s religious minorities say they have little faith in democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them.<\/p>\n<p>Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan\u2019s democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are then courted by political parties, say many in the country\u2019s communities of Shiite Muslims, Christians, Hindus and other minorities&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen representatives of Pakistan\u2019s minorities interviewed by The Associated Press expressed fears the vote will only hand more influence to extremists. Since the 2008 elections, under the outgoing government led by the left-leaning Pakistan People\u2019s Party, sectarian attacks have been relentless and minorities have found themselves increasingly targeted by radical Islamic militants. Minorities have little faith the new election will change that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/battered-and-bullied-pakistans-religious-minorities-say-they-have-little-faith-in-democracy\/2013\/05\/08\/b4ee870a-b7f2-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them. Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan\u2019s democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are then courted by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38224\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,168,161,114,343,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38224","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-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38224","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=38224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}