Forget it Seeker,
You seem intent on critisizing me personally instead of taking the article and discussing Islam and Rushdie's slant. I've already exposed your ignorance and intentional slander of Christianity numerous times yet you continue to compare apples and oranges. People like you and Norm are on my case, personally, no matter what I post.
I'm done with you both.
Sorry, Rex, this isn't about you, but about your actions. You could always learn from your mistakes if you chose to, but you continue to filter the world through your narrow vision. You did it as a JW, and you do it now as a Baptist. I have not slandered Christianity, but merely showed how your complaints against "Islam" are just as simplistic as similar complaints against Christianity. To condemn a modern-day Christian just because of the atrocities extremist Christians caused in the Middle Ages would be just as simplistic as what you are doing to modern-day Muslims, most of whom (as Rushdie says) are not in favor of these extremist Muslims.
I'm not on your case no matter what. Merely when you get things wrong. The fact that you get many things wrong is something for you to work on, not me. The way you mis-read this article is merely symptomatic of your thought process. You work from a foundation of bias and proceed from there. I am not biased toward Islam any more than I am biased toward Christianity. No religion is particularly of interest to me, but if I have reason to hate one religion above all it would be Islam (for reasons that have nothing to do with 9/11, are personal to me, and are nobody's business). Despite this, I can read an article and pull out from it the salient facts. You miss the facts and then get angry when I point this out to you. You pretend this is a personal attack, when you know very well that I have nothing against you personally, and even have a kind of affection for you.
No matter how many times you twist my motives, I will be here, standing up for accuracy.