Pakistani Christian community attacked after blasphemy accusation

Q: Members of a minority Christian community were rescued last week after a Muslim crowd attacked their settlement on a blasphemy accusation in eastern Pakistan, police and a community leader said. Where is Pakistan in South Asia?

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Q: A house and factory were burned and several people beaten after neighbors claimed the Muslim holy book, the Koran, was desecrated by a Christian. A person convicted of blasphemy can be executed in seven nations including Pakistan and its northwestern neighbor ...

A. Afghanistan

B. China

C. India

D. Iran

Q: Pakistan has the world’s second-largest Muslim population. Which nation has the largest Muslim population?

A. India

B. Indonesia

C. Iran

D. Iraq

Q: When the British ended their colonial rule in 1947, national boundaries in South Asia were set along religious lines. How many times have majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan gone to war since the British left?

A. Twice

B. 3 times

C. 4 times

D. 6 times

Q: As he campaigned this spring for third term, what did India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister call the nation’s 200 million Muslims?

A. Jihadists

B. Infiltrators

C. Terrorists

D. All of the above


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