Sir Iqbal Abdul Karim Mussa Sacranie, OBE (born 6 September 1951[1] in Malawi to a Memon family).
He served as Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) until June 2006.
[2] During the controversy on Salman Rushdie, shortly after the fatwa by Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini for his book The Satanic Verses, Sacranie stated: "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.
"[3] Sacranie states that this quotation was misinterpreted and that he merely wanted to convince Muslims that they should not kill Rushdie.
[4] On 3 January 2006 Sacranie told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that he believes homosexuality is "not acceptable", and denounced same-sex civil partnerships as "harmful".