Given the latest production of the award-winning play Osama The Hero and the University of Iowa Press anthology of Poems From Guantanamo, you can’t blame this guy for proposing a bit of even-handedness in the knighthood stakes:

Islamabad – A hard-line Pakistani parliamentarian and head of a religious political party on Wednesday demanded a “sir” title for Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, in retaliation for Britain knighting author Salman Rushdie.

I think Sir Osama should be made Poet Laureate. All of England’s greatest writers were Muslim (Sheikh Spear) and so were America’s (Louisa May al-Cott). And, while she’s at it, the Queen should give the four Tube bombers posthumous dukedoms. And the Iranians should convert their nuclear program into a duklear program to make all ayatollahs members of the House of Lords by 2010.