When one-upmanship becomes farce:
A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Thursday they had bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for author Salman Rushdie.
The Pakistan Ulema Council gave bin Laden the title "Saifullah", or sword of Allah, in response to the knighthood awarded to Rushdie last week for services to literature.
Hmmm...you know, as ridiculous as that makes the Ulema Council look, it's also a very sobering and stark message/realization: we're not exactly winning the battle for hearts and minds over there...and losing Pakistan is, well, critical.
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