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- Lambeth Palace withdrew the Lambeth Award from Muslim cleric Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi.
- Dame Sarah Mullally presented the award on the September 11 2001 25th anniversary, praising Ashrafi’s interfaith work in Pakistan.
- Ashrafi said in 2007 he would name Osama bin Laden Saifullah, “Sword of God”, citing Muslim anger over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood.
- The National Secular Society called the award obscene and beyond parody.
