AP File
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 from perceived insults.
Citing Florida pastor Terry Jones' Qur'an-burning act, the leader of the initiative, Abdul Rauf Farooqi, said the campaigners would like to pay back such "blasphemers" by doing the same to the Bible, but would not follow in their footsteps.