{"id":11369,"date":"2012-10-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/07\/attackers-of-hindu-temple-in-pakistan-charged-with-blasphemy\/"},"modified":"2012-10-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T12:00:00","slug":"attackers-of-hindu-temple-in-pakistan-charged-with-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/07\/attackers-of-hindu-temple-in-pakistan-charged-with-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Attackers of Hindu Temple in Pakistan Charged With Blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/444669\/attackers-of-hindu-temple-charged-with-blasphemy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KARACHI, PAKISTAN, September 30, 2012 (The Express Tribune): Based on Section 295-A, a blasphemy case has been registered against Muslim men for damaging a Hindu temple during riots on Ishq-e-Rasool Day.Section 295-A is the lesser known, non Islam-specific clause of the country&#8217;s blasphemy law.<\/p>\n<p>After Karachi&#8217;s Shri Krishna Bhagwan Mandir was vandalized by a mob, the Gulshan-e-Maymar police registered a case using 295-A (&#8220;deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs&#8221;), along with other charges of looting, vandalism and theft, against the vandals, nine of which have been accused. SHO Jaffa Baloch said, &#8220;For me, every believer is the same. The desecration of a temple meant blasphemy to me, and that&#8217;s why we inserted that section.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Security has been beefed up in the Hindu locality. But six statues of Hindu Gods (each worth more than US $2000) were destroyed and their gold adornments stolen; holy books were stolen and damaged, and Hindus living nearby were robbed and stoned&#8211;even though the attackers said their anger was toward &#8220;the Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KARACHI, PAKISTAN, September 30, 2012 (The Express Tribune): Based on Section 295-A, a blasphemy case has been registered against,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}