Guest post by Saba Farbodkia. Originally a post at British Muslims for Secular Democracy on Facebook, published here by permission.
Dear offended religious people,
Please stop the hypocrisy. The right to offend is not exclusively yours.
If you know the holy scriptures of the religions that you uphold so dearly, you already know how offensive parts of them are to people.
Yet, some of you still continue to publish them. Some of you buy those publications and read them. Some of you recite them to your children. Some of you force your children to uphold them as sacred and act upon them as far as they can. And all of you regard those scriptures beyond questioning and criticism, otherwise why … Read the rest
(This is a syndicated post. Read the original at FreeThoughtBlogs.)