This is far beyond teasing. It seems you've never heard of the Satanic Verses.
I know enough about the background on it and the worldwide political crisis that ensued to know -- and during when it all went down -- to know that the religious sanctification of murder was perhaps the most symbolic way to prove a point. (Even if a lot of the hatred was more directed at stringing up the translators.)
I know that one Muslim calling another Muslim a hypocrite is a sure-fire way to go
kaffir in the eyes of Mohamed. But since Mohamed doesn't speak for me, I can call those Muslims hypocrites on behalf of the rest of the world at least.
Free speech, literary liberty with novels -- these are realities that exist and cannot be surrendered because some refuse to interpret life in anyone's shoes but their own.