My problem with his use of the Salmon Rushdie affair is his insistance that such behavior is unique to Muslims, or that such behavior is qualitatively more bad than bad behavior by extremists of other religions. It's very important to make sure the distinction is made between the extremists of any religion and the rest of the people who belong to that religion, and also to not fall into the trap of saying some kinds of killing or death threats are worse than others, depending only upon who is doing it.

To say that the Salmon Rushdie thing is any more reprehensible than Jewish extremists making death threats against human rights activists is bigotry, because he's indicting people for who they are and what group they belong to, and not for what they are doing.

But thank you for your kind words.