No surprise here. The same UK regime that is complicit in mass crime knights an Egyptian capitalist. The latest example of the intimate relations between the metropole bourgeoisie and the ‘comprador’ one . Colour, religion and nationality are irrelevant. Being part of a dictatorship, repression and oppression is also irrelevant.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51