It does impose certain obligations - tone down the rhetoric, stand in solidarity against purges, etc., - it doesn't require you to pretend that Christians have got their metaphysics right or that religion has a role to play in the activities of the state.
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Ophelia Benson & I talk about this general issue at some length in "Does God Hate Women?", where the context is a feminist criticism of Islam. If it were true that such a criticism made things worse for Muslims would that make the criticism morally impermissible?
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I don't have a copy of the book, so I'm not able to provide a reference, but not surprisingly we concluded that it remains permissible. I do think you have to factor in consequences as part of a moral calculus, but only in very unusual circumstances would silence be required.
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