In the article “‘Asbos’ to silence 25 hate clerics” (News, December 22, 2013), we wrongly alleged that Dr Shaykh Haitham Al Haddad, a British-based Islamic scholar, commentator and jurist, had praised Osama bin Laden in an article he wrote in May 2011 entitled “Advice for Muslims on the Death of Osama bin Laden” and that he had been accused of justifying the killing of innocent civilians by terrorists as “collateral damage”. We are happy to clarify that Dr Al Haddad was not banned from speaking at the LSE in 2012, as we reported. We understand that his talk was postponed during an LSE investigation and that it went ahead after he sent a letter to the LSE rejecting anti-semitism. We have agreed a settlement with