lished the cartoons, put it succinctly when he wrote: “if a believer demands that I, as a non-believer, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with a secular democracy.”
In fact—and here’s something many will find particularly hard to swallow—it’s important not only that people be free to criticize and mock religion. It’s important that they actually do so, from time to time.
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