So you admit that you read the headline and NOT what Rowling said. The "pinwheel" would be the headline writer. What Rowling said was in the body of the article so there's no reason to suppose "if" she said anything.
From the article:
“In the interview Rowling claims to have received death threats from Christians opposed to her novels, calling Christian ‘fundamentalists’ “dangerous” and comparing them by inference to Islamic fundamentalists.”
If she did say this, she is a pinhead. If she didn’t, she should sue the author for libel.