282RA, please show me where I have excused the behavior of the extremists.


I draw your attention to this post of mine, which you seem to somehow have missed...

Subject: RE: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
From: CarolC - PM
Date: 19 Jun 07 - 07:15 PM

By their fruits, Bill.

One doesn't avoid engaging in Muslim baiting (or any kind of racial or ethnic baiting, for that matter) to protect the extremists, such as the ones who issued or who support the fatwas. One rejects the practice of Muslim baiting to protect the Muslims who do not agree with the fatwas, and those who support them, from the kind of generalized hatred of all Muslims and all forms of Islam that we see so amply demonstrated here in this thread.