Muslim leaders who condemned their own censorship had earlier demanded censorship of others.

Evidence

In response to the police investigation, 22 imams and Muslim leaders wrote to The Times (2006) demanding the right to be able to ‘freely express their views in an atmosphere free of intimidation or bullying’. They added that ‘We cannot truly claim to be a free and open society while we are trying to silence dissenting views’. Many of those same leaders had called for Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses to be banned. Sacranie himself had said of Rushdie, immediately after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for the author’s murder, that ‘Death is too good for him’. And every one of the signatories to the Times letter had wanted the Danish cartoons, published just four months before Sacranie’s comments, to be censored. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 675

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