Alleged community offences are actually intra-community debates

Evidence

More often than not, though, what is deemed an ‘offence to a community’ refers in reality to debates within communities. Some Muslims found The Satanic Verses offensive. Others did not. Few Muslims objected when the Danish cartoons were first published. Only months of campaigning, primarily by Saudi Arabian authorities, turned the issue into a flashpoint (Malik 2009: 142–147). It is because what is often called ‘offence to a community’ is in reality debate within communities that so many of the flashpoints over offensiveness have been over works produced by minority artists – not just Salman Rushdie, but also Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Sooreh Hera, Taslima Nasrin, M. F. Hussain and countless others. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 663

More often than not, though, what is deemed an ‘offence to a community’ refers in reality to debates within communities. Some Muslims found The Satanic Verses offensive. Others did not. Few Muslims objected when the Danish cartoons were first published. Only months of campaigning, primarily by Saudi Arabian authorities, turned the issue into a flashpoint (Malik 2009: 142–147). It is because what is often called ‘offence to a community’ is in reality debate within communities that so many of the flashpoints over offensiveness have been over works produced by minority artists – not just Salman Rushdie, but also Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Sooreh Hera, Taslima Nasrin, M. F. Hussain and countless others. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 659

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s own framing essay on religious feeling and liberal discomfort — the ‘offence to a community’ construct echoes how ‘Islamophobia’ itself gets reified into a single undifferentiated object. — connects to: The local community functioned as an individual against the state — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 682
• CANDY: The detail that Danish cartoons drew few Muslim objections until Saudi authorities campaigned is a striking, conversation-worthy fact.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 663; Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 659

Broader Connections

• The local community functioned as an individual against the state #corroborates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 682