Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses remarks published today by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury:
The Archbishop of Canterbury says that Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's Minister for Minorities, who was killed for protesting the nation's blasphemy laws, died "not simply for his Christian faith, but for a vision shared between Pakistani Christians and Muslims." Indeed, he says that Bhatti's "courage and steadfastness of purpose was nourished in the political culture of Pakistan," and that only a "faction in Pakistan" supports injustice. What is needed, he adds, is "a rational debate in Pakistan" about the blasphemy laws.