Protests against Salman Rushdie

Angry protesters took to the streets in Pakistan on Thursday to denounce a British knighthood for author Salman Rushdie, whose novel the Satanic Verses outraged Muslims worldwide. Protesters carrying banners and placards chanting 'take back the title' and 'hang Rushdie' hit the streets of Lahore and Karachi. Britain's Queen Elizabeth awarded the Indian-born British writer last week for services to literature, provoking criticism from across the Muslim world.