Sunday, June 3, 2007

Wall graffiti > desecration charge

I have already pointed out that charges of desecrating scriptures are become increasingly popular weapons of inter-religious conflict, but now the charge of desecration has been extended to the erasure or overwriting ("scribbled lines" according to Daily News & Analysis) of a few Qur'anic verses on the wall of a nursing school in Pakistan. As a result, the principal and four students (all Christians) have been temporarily suspended pending a government investigation.

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