{"id":58080,"date":"2017-03-17T07:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T11:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58080"},"modified":"2017-03-17T06:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T10:15:56","slug":"ap-pakistan-asks-facebook-and-twitter-to-help-identify-blasphemers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58080","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Pakistan asks Facebook and Twitter to help identify blasphemers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan said Thursday it has asked Facebook and Twitter to help it identify Pakistanis suspected of blasphemy so that it can prosecute them or pursue their extradition.<\/p>\n<p>Under Pakistan&#8217;s strict blasphemy laws, anyone found to have insulted Islam or the Prophet Muhammad can be sentenced to death.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said an official in Pakistan&#8217;s Washington embassy has approached the two social media companies in an effort to identify Pakistanis, either within the country or abroad, who recently shared material deemed offensive to Islam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alvareviewcourier.com\/story\/2017\/03\/17\/interesting-items\/pakistan-wants-facebook-twitter-to-help-it-combat-blasphemy\/10806.html\">Read it all<\/a>.  Also, WWM has a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatchmonitor.org\/background\/pakistans-anti-blasphemy-laws\/\">Pakistan&#8217;s blasphemy laws there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan said Thursday it has asked Facebook and Twitter to help it identify Pakistanis suspected of blasphemy so that it can prosecute them or pursue their extradition. Under Pakistan&#8217;s strict blasphemy laws, anyone found to have insulted Islam or the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58080\">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":[40,433,94,582,589,168,114,508,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-pakistan-asia","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58080","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=58080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58083,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58080\/revisions\/58083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}