Sir Salman Rushdie Versus The Sword Of God Osama Bin Laden

The queen's birthday awards individuals for their achievements or bravery to the UK. The title itself has lost its appealing, and has been awarded to some undeserving characters in the past, some are despots accused of human rights violations, corruption, and crimes against humanity such as Robert Mugabea, Benito Mussolini, and Josip Tito so there is a history of awarding the wrong unmerited individuals.

A warding Salman Rushdie the knighthood has provoked anger in the Islamic world both popular and diplomatic.
I and many people I know would question the achievements Salman made to the UK, other than tens of millions of pounds in terms of security and guards, in addition Salman is living much of his time in the US not in the UK.

Salman Rushdie who became famous because of the late Iranian spiritual leader Kohmeni's fatwa, which asked for his assassination. His book Satanic verses and the fatwa issued forced him to live under hiding. I doubt that Salman would ever be famous without the Kohmin's fatwa, since all of his books are unreadable. Before this fatwa Salman was unknown second rate writer, but he was smart enough to provoke and attract attention from the rising Islamic fundamentalism who did not understand the game of provoke to be famous, and the rising anti Islamic sentiment aftermath the Islamic revolution in Iran and its open support for changes in the world by all means.
MP Stewart Jackson objected the Salman's knighthood calling his books "rubbish, tedious, and without literary merit".

The reaction in the Islamic world did not surprise any one. There are regimes and groups which live on these incidents and crises it generates such as the prophet's cartoon, and the awarding of Salman's the knighthood. They present them selves as defenders of the pristine Islam, and it's values.
In Pakistan a Wahabi group, which is made of more than thousands of clerics decided to award Osama Bin Laden the title of the Sword Of Allah or god. It is noteworthy that this title, the prophet gave to Ali for his deeds to defend the prophet and the infant Islamic state. Ali was a man who loved humanity and peace regardless of faith or race. One of his best known speeches; "know that people are either a brother in Islam , or a brother in humanity who is equal to you", unlike Osama who promoted hate, and urged his followers to kill any one who doesn't share them their values.