I'm a Liberal minded kind of person but whenever I'm faced with the choice of denouncing the random beheading of innocent people in the street or criticizing the production of satirical drawings.. clearly the problem is the cartoons!
In my view respect is something that's earned and not granted automatically (for anything), and certainly not because of "deeply held beliefs". In fact millennia of experience shows us that "deeply held beliefs" are usually an excellent reason to be even more skeptical and/or disrespectful of someone or some idea. The key to understanding this position lies in the word "belief" which as we all know means something very different from the word "knowledge", regardless of how "deep" it runs.
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