I should be able to say it

Salman Rushdie in an interview with Guardian said: "...I may not like the things you believe and, by the way, the fact that you believe them makes me think less of you as a person. I may despise you personally for what you believe, but I should be able to say it. Everybody needs to get thicker skins. There is this culture of offence, as though offending someone is the worst thing anyone can do. Again, there is an assumption that our first duty is to be respectful. But what would a respectful cartoon look like? Really boring! You wouldn't publish it. The nature of the form is irreverence and disrespect."

I don't know about ticker skin thing because I am sure fundamentalists have very much ticker skins than us, but when it comes to their fear ideology, religion or whatever that they advocate then they turn to hateful, against free speech sword-mongers. It's authors and free thinkers that we asked them to use thick shells to cover yourself and don't let these free speech haters stop you from what you are doing.

Hat tip: 'Everybody needs to get thicker skins'