> Paints with a pretty broad brush, doesn't he?
Yes, he does. Much akin to those "Christians" who declare that all atheists/agnostics are evil and/or liberal and/or marals free, or that one must agree with YEC or you're an anti-Christian, or those who say that anyone who says that they don't like some particular belief system is therefore calling for the deaths or imprisonment of people who keep to that belief system.
But I didn't see anything in there that would cause reasonable people to want to have him killed. Nor did I see anything along the lines of "perfectly peaceful and law abiding Christians should be locked in the cupboard and silenced."
#####Yes, he does. Much akin to those "Christians" who declare that all atheists/agnostics are evil and/or liberal and/or marals free, or that one must agree with YEC or you're an anti-Christian, or those who say that anyone who says that they don't like some particular belief system is therefore calling for the deaths or imprisonment of people who keep to that belief system.#####
Then we fully agree that Rushdie was out of line in what he said.
#####But I didn't see anything in there that would cause reasonable people to want to have him killed.#####
Did I say otherwise?
#####Nor did I see anything along the lines of "perfectly peaceful and law abiding Christians should be locked in the cupboard and silenced."#####
Face it, he's a rank hypocrite who envisions secularists such as himself as the only people fit to rule or even to participate in the political process. What do you think he meant by locking "superstition" in the cupboard where it belongs? He wants people of faith to go home and shut up. This from a guy who is treated as a 1st Amendment hero.
He should lay blame for the Jihad declared against him on the specific people responsible and stop trying to find moral equivalence when it's not there.