 The OIC denounced calls for the death of the Danish cartoonists . The OIC 's Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said at the height of crisis that the violent protests were " un @-@ Islamic " and appealed for calm . He also denounced calls for a boycott of Danish goods . Twelve high @-@ profile writers , among them Salman Rushdie , signed a letter called Manifesto : Together Facing the New Totalitarianism which was published in a number of newspapers . It said that the violence sparked by the publication of cartoons satirising Muhammad " shows the need to fight for secular values and freedom . " 
