Why you shouldn't flirt with a VP candidate

If you're the president of Pakistan, it could lead to a fatwa from one of your country's hard line mosques:

What did President Zardari do to draw such scorn? It might have been the "gorgeous" compliment he gave Ms. Palin when the two met at the UN last week during her meet-and-greet with foreign leaders ahead of Thursday's vice presidential debate with opponent Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee.

But, as this article from the Christian Science Monitor explains, this fatwa isn't as threatening as the one that called for Salman Rushdie's death for The Satanic Verses:

Though fatwas, or religious edicts, can range from advice on daily life to death sentences, this one does not call for any action or violence.