Pakistani Islamists chant slogans in front of a burning effigy of Indian born author Salman Rushdie during a protest in Karachi. Muslim radicals have burned an effigy of Queen Elizabeth as Pakistan summoned the British ambassador over Rushdie’s knighthood and Iranian hardliners turned their fury on the monarch.(AFP/Asif Hassan)
… Aslam said the knighthood was resented by all Muslims.
“The British High Commissioner was further told that Pakistan deplores and regrets this decision which is contrary to our common objective of building inter-civilisational and inter-religious understanding and harmony,” she said.
And we all know what their definition of “inter-civilisational and inter-religious understanding and harmony” is. Remember?
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Brian Ledbetter has a photo gallery of the fresh protests against Rushdie’s “insult.” They could use a spell-checker:
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Will Britain defend itself or fold? So far, it has summoned up the guts to express “concern” over the Pakistain religion affairs minister’s comments. Make that “deep concern:”
Britain expressed its “deep concern” today at remarks made by a Pakistani government minister about the knighting of Sir Salman Rushdie as protests against the award continued among Islamic hardliners in Pakistan and Iran. The British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Robert Brinkley, was summoned to meet officials in Islamabad to hear Pakistani objections to the honour but, according to a Foreign Office spokeswoman, relayed Britain’s own “deep concern” about comments made by the religious affairs minister, Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, in the national assembly yesterday. Mr ul-Haq appeared to justify a suicide bombing attack in response to Rushdie’s knighthood when he told Pakistani MPs that “if somebody has to attack by strapping a bomb to his body to protect the honour of the Prophet, then it is justified.” He later said he had been misunderstood. Today Mr Brinkley “made clear the British Government’s deep concern at what the minister for religious affairs was reported to have said,” according the spokesman.
Britain expressed its “deep concern” today at remarks made by a Pakistani government minister about the knighting of Sir Salman Rushdie as protests against the award continued among Islamic hardliners in Pakistan and Iran.
The British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Robert Brinkley, was summoned to meet officials in Islamabad to hear Pakistani objections to the honour but, according to a Foreign Office spokeswoman, relayed Britain’s own “deep concern” about comments made by the religious affairs minister, Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, in the national assembly yesterday.
Mr ul-Haq appeared to justify a suicide bombing attack in response to Rushdie’s knighthood when he told Pakistani MPs that “if somebody has to attack by strapping a bomb to his body to protect the honour of the Prophet, then it is justified.” He later said he had been misunderstood.
Today Mr Brinkley “made clear the British Government’s deep concern at what the minister for religious affairs was reported to have said,” according the spokesman.
Danish cartoons publisher Flemming Rose, now a blogger at PJM, weighs in:
Unfortunately, too many people do not understand the serious consequences of misplaced respect for offended religious feelings. A prime example – the United Nation’s Human Rights Council’s passage of a scandalous resolution condoning state punishment of speech deemed insulting to r