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(CNSNews.com) – A group of radical clerics in Pakistan wants the country’s Supreme Court to declare certain passages in the Bible blasphemous – because they depict as flawed certain biblical characters whom Muslims regard as Islamic prophets. If the court fails to do so, they said, then lawyers will submit an application for the Bible to be formally banned in Pakistan. The campaign, announced by the clerics at a Lahore mosque and reported Tuesday in the Karachi daily The News and the Urdu-language Roznama Islam, is the latest attempt by radicals to use the country’s blasphemy laws to shield Islam...

Robert Kagan (author, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment) Q: You ask the question in your speech tomorrow night: "Is the Security Council really the depository of international legitimacy?"KAGAN:...I think it's fairly clear that throughout most of its history the Security Council has not been the place where people go for ultimate legitimacy... When Europeans wanted to go to war in Kosovo to stop Slobodan Milosevic, Russia was unwilling to support action in the Security Council, so Europeans were perfectly happy to go without a Security Council resolution...Q: ...Are you arguing essentially that the Europeans have been hypocritical over Iraq?KAGAN:...

LONDON - If there is such a thing as an "asylum shopping list" for refugees, Britain is at the top.Every year, hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers leave their impoverished home countries embarking on perilous journeys in search of a better place to live: Their destination is Britain, considered a modern-day El Dorado, especially by Muslims.The government provides shelter, food and medical care while their applications for asylum are considered.They can live in Muslim immigrant communities where they can speak their language and in many cases send their children to long-established Muslim religious schools paid for by leading members of...