Rushdie affair: protest continue in Pakistan, Christians fear retaliations
by Qaiser Felix
Protests in Pakistan against the knighthood awarded by the British government to the “apostate” writer have spread to Iran and Malaysia. Islamabad, Tehran and London trade accusations in a diplomatic war of words. There are fears that the affair will be politically exploited like the Muhammad cartoons and the Pope’s Regensburg speech were last year. Pakistani Christians are concerned that the incident might further undermine inter-faith harmony in the country.
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