Dr. Max Malik is accusing the Muslim Writer's Awards of not only censoring his book, "The Butterfly Hunter",  but never giving it to the judges to read at all, causing it to be shortlisted by the first-round of volunteer judges seemingly in order to appease parts of the Muslim community. His book is one of five books that were cast from the contest, but Malik feels his book was considered "unsavorable" because it dealt with controversial Muslim issues--a child-abusing mosque teacher, the rape of a Muslim girl, a white female journalist who joins a suicide bombing cell, drug abuse, pedophilia, and a gay man using rent boys and prostitutes--issues that are part of the real world today and in Muslim communities.


Backed by the UK's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, the organization attracted over 10,000 submissions last year with Dr. Max Malik, a former  GP from Birmingham, winning the title for a collection of non-fiction writing, poetry and plays. Imran Akram, chief executive of the 2008 awards, feels Dr. Malik's book was incorrectly not given to the judges as it should have been and is investigating the matter --stating that the Muslim Writers Awards project does not condone censorship. Well, we shall see.

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