Well no surprise to see you here Carol, I wondered when you would show. Mr Rushdie has not indulged in Muslim baiting, the book which caused the original Fatwah, The Satanic Verses was published without any comment, until a group of Muslims in the English Midlands, somewhere like Bradford I think, declared it to be blasphemous. This ties in with Bill D's post above. Up till those people decided it was an insult to Islam, nobody had taken much notice of the book, and it certainly wasn't a book written with the intent of insulting anybody.
Salman Rushdie is I believe an apostate, one who converted from Islam to another religion, apostasy is forbidden, and punishable by death in Islam, so he was never going to get a fair hearing was he?
He has throughout maintained a dignified silence on the subject, and has not commented or retaliated in any way as far as I know, against those who threatened his life on a whim.
I suggest you read this ONE book which has been the cause of all the anger against him from Islamic fundamentalists, and then you come back and make an INFORMED post on the subject.
Giok