A leading group of Pakistani Islamic scholars today awarded its highest honour to al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, saying it was in reaction to Britain’s knighthood for Salman Rushdie.
The Australian Daily Telegraph Pakistan scholars honour Bin Laden
- Salman Rushdie
- Novelist, author of a novel some but not all Muslims think offends their religion
- Osama bin Laden
- Head of terror network responsible for the:
- World Trade Center attack in 1993 (6 deaths, 1,042 injured
- 300 deaths in the Embassy Bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi in 1998
- USS Cole bombing (17 deaths) in 2000
- second World Trade Centre attack in 2001 (2,972 deaths)
- the 2002 Mombasa hotel bombing (13 dead, 80 injured)
And these people honouring Bin Laden are supposed to be Islamic scholars
