Iqbal Sacranie
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Sir Iqbal Abdul Karim Mussain Sacranie, OBE (born Malawi, 1951) served as Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) until June 2006. He arrived in UK in 1969. He was founding Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (established 1997), and served four further years as Secretary General from 2002 to 2004 and 2004 to 2006. He was honoured with an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1999, and was Knighted by the Queen in 2005.[1]
On January 3, 2006, Sacranie told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that he believes homosexuality is "not acceptable", and denounced same-sex civil partnerships as "harmful". He said that bringing in gay marriage did "not augur well" for building the foundations of society.[2][3][4] He also stated, referring to Salman Rushdie, shortly after the fatwa by Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, “Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him his mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah.”[5]
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- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 57665. p. 1. 11 June 2005. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "news.bbc.co.uk". BBC News. 2006-01-03. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4579146.stm. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
- ^ "timescolumns.typepad.com". Archived from the original on 2007-01-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20070105005548/http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2006/01/islam_and_gays.html#more. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
- ^ Freedland, Jonathan (2006-01-18). "politics.guardian.co.uk". The Guardian (London). http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,1688939,00.html. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
- ^ Murtagh, Peter (1989-02-18). "Rushdie in hiding after Ayatollah's death threat". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1989/feb/18/fiction.salmanrushdie. Retrieved 2012-02-26.
