Islamophobic censorship can target a Muslim’s own artistic expression

Evidence

The Submission offers us an intriguing inversion of the usual “Muslims oppose freedom of expression” strand of Islamophobia; here it is the Muslim protagonist’s own artistic vision that is to be censored in the interest of others’ sensitivities. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 277

Categorization

• XREF: Directly inverts the freedom-of-expression framing often applied to Rushdie and the Danish cartoons — the reader’s own knowledge of the Islamophobia debate makes this reversal legible.
• SEED: Angle: how the freedom-of-expression axis of Islamophobia gets flipped when the Muslim is the artist, connecting censorship as control of narrative ownership rather than merely offense.