Charlie Hebdo, Don't pretend your new issue does not disrespect Islam

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108. I think it is disinegenuous for religions which create an industry out of invective aimed at others

and at humanity in general, at minority groups, at other faith groups and other nations to affect that they have some high blown standard about how people should speak about others.
To put it bluntly, religious people including Muslims seem to want protections for their own precious right to insult everyone they might wish to insult in unrelentingly vicious and direct terms while whimpering that they themselves must be approached on bended knee and with bated breath.
The pointed hate speech out of religious quarters offends me deeply. The religious should not mistake tolerance for their bigoted ways as any form of endorsement of them. They should realize that their own speech offends masses of people, deeply and personally. They insult our families, our parents. Do they think this is their birth right? I do not agree.
I think once a religion has become known for fire breathing clergy shouting against this group and that group, calling other countries Satanic, calling minority groups of all kinds 'dogs' and 'pigs' and 'filthy' and 'vermin' and 'disordered' and 'sinners' it might be a bit too late for them to sell themselves as Ms Manners. I think it is an offensive joke to claim religion, creator of most hate speech, needs protection from criticism. Nothing could be more dangerous, foolhardy or craven.
I agree with Rushdie, when religion asks for your respect what they really want is your fear. I am not afraid of them, with their insults and invective and deities one can harm with a pencil.