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The American Library Association issued a recommendation to libraries still holding Alms for Jihad: " Given the intense interest in the book, and the desire of readers to learn about the controversy first hand, we recommend that U. S. libraries keep the book available for their users.

" The publisher's decision did not have the support of the book's authors and was criticised by some who claimed it was incompatible with freedom of speech and with freedom of the press and that it indicated that English libel laws were excessively strict.

In a New York Times Book Review ( 7 October 2007 ), United States Congressman Frank R. Wolf described Cambridge's settlement as " basically a book burning.

" CUP pointed out that, at that time, it had already sold most of its copies of the book.