SIR - How dare the Pakistani Government have the audacity to tell us who we can or cannot honour?

How dare they criticise our Government when a senior member of theirs openly encourages suicide bombers?

How dare they say we have insulted them, when they have burned an effigy of our sovereign?

Salman Rushdie is an obscure author, who not many people have read. They will certainly know of him now, might even read his books, and then wonder what on earth all the fuss is about.

Islam is a very young religion, compared to Christianity, so it could be forgiven for being a little unsure of its place in the greater scheme of things.

That said, it is astounding that of all the religions on earth, only Muslims take such outrageous offence at the slightest criticism, which often involves mass hysteria, arson and riot.

The Pakistani Government might serve a more useful purpose if it paid less attention to an insignificant little author and more to condemning the Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, who are slaughtering hundreds of their fellow Muslims every day.

Malcolm Wood, Westercroft View, Northowram