Pakistan scholars honour Bin Laden in Rushdie row
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Pakistani Islamic scholars honoured Osama bin Laden in response to Britain&#39;s knighthood for Salman Rushdie, as a senior ruling party member said he would not hesitate to kill the novelist.
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Pakistan officially protested to Britain on Tuesday over a top award to Salman Rushdie that has sparked renewed anger among some Muslims over &quot;The Satanic Verses&quot; author.
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Britain insisted Wednesday it was right to knight Salman Rushdie for his literary career, adding it was &quot;sorry&quot; if it had caused distress, after protests spread in the Muslim world and a prominent cleric called for the novelist to be killed.
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has labelled author Salman Rushdie an apostate whose killing would be authorised by Islam, according to message carried by Iranian media.
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EDINBURGH -- Al Qaeda's deputy leader threatened a jittery Britain yesterday with more attacks, accusing London of defying the Islamic world by honoring novelist Salman Rushdie.
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The death sentence fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago is still valid and will remain so, a leading cleric said on Friday following Britain&#39;s knighting of the controversial author.
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Pakistan's National Assembly condemns Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.
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Pakistan's minister of religious affairs should be dismissed for suggesting suicide bombs were a justified response to a British knighthood for Salman Rushdie, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said.
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Muslim radicals burned an effigy of Queen Elizabeth Tuesday as Pakistan summoned the British ambassador over Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood and Iranian hardliners turned their fury on the monarch.
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Author Salman Rushdie no longer fears for his life because of the death threats issued against him by Islamic clerics in response to his book &quot;The Satanic Verses&quot; nearly 20 years ago, he has said in Portugal.
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London - Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who faced a death sentence for writing The Satanic Verses, condemned the government for failing to protect a Sikh playwright who has been forced into hiding to escape death threats, in comments published on
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"Sir Salman's honor is richly deserved and the reasons for it are self-explanatory"  Pakistan on Monday condemned Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie as an affront to Muslim sentiments, and a Cabinet minister said the honor provided a justification for suicide attacks.'This is an occasion for the (world's) 1.5 billion Muslims to look at the seriousness of this decision,' Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, religious affairs minister, said in parliament.'The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. If someone exploded a bomb on his body, he would be right to do so unless the British government apologizes and withdraws the 'sir' title,' ul-Haq said. Read more
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islam by awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf -- a key U.S. ally -- is less popular in his own country than al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a poll of Pakistanis conducted last month by an anti-terrorism organization.
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Britain told Pakistan on Tuesday that it was deeply concerned by a Pakistani minister's statement that the knighthood honoring "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie could justify suicide attacks.
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Britain's knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie contributes to insulting Islam and may lead to terrorism, a Pakistani minister says.
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Osama bin Laden is reportedly being given safe haven on the Pakistan border with the help of the country&#39;s officials. The indications from recent intelligence reports coming from tribal areas of Pakistan have