Thank you, Nerd. Actually, I think Islamic fundamentalists did think of Salman Rushdie as an enemy propaganda commander, in the sense that he was promulgating what they would view as subversive propaganda injurious to their people. One fights a war with ideas as well as with guns and bombs. Ideas are powerful.

And they also viewed him as a traitor to the cause. The Americans would have executed Benedict Arnold if they had captured him, I imagine. I'm sure they wanted him dead by any means feasible.

I think the two sides are mirror images of one another psychologically speaking....but they are certainly not mirror images in every literal outward detail. They just tend to think in a similar fashion. ("We good...they bad." "We God's people...they not." "We rightfully defending...they wrongfully attacking.") These are all subjective and self-serving viewpoints.