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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
... logic dictates that, if one is to criticise one body of work on the basis that it fails to meet certain criteria, then one should criticise all works that fail to meet the same criteria on the same basis. It is this lack of logicality in the approach of those who would seek to ban Rowling's works that I find unacceptable.
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Quite. However, we are dealing with a branch of Fundamentalism here. And as with Islamic, Christian Fundamentalism has its own logic which has its bases in fear, a sense of dis-empowerment, and the adulation and adherence to a charismatic leader who speaks what their hearts secretly believe and promises what they desire. Thus they follow a Falwell or bin Laden, preferring clear leadership to logic. (Funny, it just occurred to me that Hitler fits this definition too - so Nazism was a kind of Germanic Fundamentalism.)
Obviously unacceptable, but maybe more understandable. Of course, you probably understand already.