Of all the days in the year, they chose that one.
On Friday the 11th of September 2026, twenty five years to the day after nearly three thousand people were murdered in New York, Washington and a field in Pennsylvania by muslims, the Archbishop of Canterbury stood in Lambeth Palace and handed an award to a man who had once said Osama bin Laden deserved the highest title in Islam.
His name is Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi. He chairs the Pakistan Ulema Council. And the award the Church of England gave him was for reconciliation.
What the "Church" gave him
It was the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation, presented by Dame Sarah Mullally at her first Lambeth Awards as Archbishop. Lambeth Palace's own photographs show her beside him in the library, his wife in a full black niqab, the medal around his wife's neck on a blue ribbon.
The citation on the certificate praised him "for his outstanding work as an ambassador of interfaith harmony in Pakistan." It named one case in particular: "One notable example of his intervention was in the case of Rimsha Masih, a young Christian girl falsely accused of blasphemy." But the truth is, he is a terrorist supporter that shares in the same satanic ideology.
Remember that name "Rimsha Masih". We are coming back to her soon.
What he said about Bin Laden
In June 2007, Britain knighted Salman Rushdie. Ashrafi's answer, reported at the time by Reuters, was this:
"If a blasphemer can be given the title 'Sir' by the West despite the fact he's hurt the feelings of Muslims, then a mujahid who has been fighting for Islam against the Russians, Americans, and British must be given the lofty title of Islam, Saifullah."
Saifullah means Sword of Allah. AFP reported him saying: "We are pleased to award the title of Saifullah (Sword of Allah) to Osama bin Laden," and "This is the highest title for a Muslim warrior." You see, so when he tries to hide behind "context" it is very clear that the true context is even more damning for him.
Those are his words remember, reported by two international news agencies in the week he said them. And the title was not chosen at random. In Islamic tradition Sword of Allah is the name of Khalid ibn al Walid, the general whose armies carried Islam out of Arabia by conquest, rape, murder and blood shed. Six years after Bin Laden killed three thousand civilians, a cleric went looking for a title to honour him and chose the title of an evil islamist. People should not be shocked anymore because every muslim supports muhammed and muhammed was even worse.
What he said about the blasphemy law
Now back to Rimsha Masih, the case the Church put on his certificate.
In 2012 she was a Christian child, reported to have learning difficulties, accused of burning pages of the Quran and held under Pakistan's blasphemy laws, the harshest of which carries a mandatory death sentence. Ashrafi in the same breath as "backing her release", said of the law that had put her in a cell:
"Let me be clear, this law should remain." So clearly he is evil.
Two years later, Dawn reported him saying it again: "The blasphemy law should stay." So he supports killing people for going against islam and that is exactly what Muhammed taught who they follow. Every muslim follows muhammed.
So now we have witnessed the apostate Church honouring him for defending one Christian girl from the blasphemy law, and left out that he wants to keep that law for every other Christian in Pakistan. Asia Bibi spent eight years on death row under it. Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti, the second a Christian and the country's minister for minorities, were assassinated in 2011 for opposing it and Ashrafi supports it. The "church of england" is led by fools and wolves. That is coming from a Christian man.
Six days
When the backlash became unbearable for these maniacs, on Thursday the 17th of September, Lambeth Palace withdrew the award, saying only that "previous comments made by Imam Ashrafi have come to light."
They had not come to light apparently but really they had been on the public record since 2007, in Reuters, AFP and Al Jazeera, for anyone at Lambeth who went looking.
The Conservative MP Nick Timothy put it plainly. "The naivety of the Archbishop in presenting an award to someone who openly praised Osama bin Laden is staggering," he said, "and on the anniversary of 9/11, too."
His defence
Yet this deceiver Ashrafi claims his words were "totally taken out of context," and told the Press Association he was "giving an example" of how Rushdie's knighthood had hurt Muslims, and that the title was never actually given. His council says the comparison "was not an endorsement of bin Laden." The Church Times reports he was nominated before Archbishop Mullally took office. These maniacs always play the victim card when caught.
Read the 2007 words again. He called Bin Laden a mujahid "fighting for Islam" who "must be given" the title, and the reports at the time say his council was awarding it.
The real invasion
It would be easy to say the Church of England has been invaded, which it has to a certain extent. The deeper truth is worse though. Nobody broke down the door at Lambeth. The "Church" (wolves) opened it, walked him through the library, handed him the certificate and put the photographs on its own website.
A "Church" that knew what it believed would have known what to look for. The evil ideology that Ashrafi leads says of Jesus Christ, "they killed him not, nor crucified him" (Quran 4:157). It denies the one event the whole of Christianity and world history objectivley stands on. On the anniversary of the day nineteen men murdered nearly three thousand people in the name of their demon "god" called allah, the Archbishop of Canterbury did this...
The other sword
There is a sword in the Gospels too. The true sword. The Truth.
Jesus Christ went to the cross and gave His life for the men who nailed Him there, not because God needed anything from us, but because He loved us. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again the third day (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). It is finished, it is free, and it cannot be earned, so believe on The Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. That offer is open to you, and honestly, without faith, people will not get through what is to come.
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Sources
The award, the date and the full list of recipients are in Lambeth Palace's own announcement, Archbishop of Canterbury presents Lambeth Awards. The citation is quoted from the certificate in Lambeth Palace's official photograph, NT029392 on its Flickr account. The withdrawal is the Statement from Lambeth Palace of 17 September 2026.
The 2007 remarks were reported by Reuters, as carried at the time by the Christian Science Monitor and Salon, and by AFP, as re-quoted in Arab News Pakistan. Al Jazeera's report of 22 June 2007 confirms the announcement was made at the time.
His 2012 words on the blasphemy law were reported during the Rimsha Masih case by the Anchorage Daily News, and his 2014 words by Dawn. His 2026 replies are from the Press Association and from the BBC as reported by Fox News. The detail of his nomination is from the Church Times. Nick Timothy's remarks were reported by The Telegraph.
Photographs by Neil Turner for Lambeth Palace, reproduced for the purpose of reporting and criticism. Every quotation of Scripture is from the Authorised Version.
