Most normal, sane, people will accept someone's criticism, and will take it for what it's worth. They won't go out of their way to silence their critic.
But, as the fraudulent Human Rights Commissions have shown here, and the Hate Crimes Bill that has passed in the U.S. Senate will show in America if it becomes law, their attempts at silencing speech is more profound than a mere response to irritation.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that the most active silencers are homosexuals and Muslims.
It struck me the other day, that what they're trying to silence is the voice (the word) of God. Christians are the most common targets for homosexuals. And Muslims in Western countries, whose laws, morals and ways of life are based on God's Word, are tireless in attempting to silence this Western system, and the God that they hate.
This is not a mere problem of freedoms. Silencing speech goes deep into our spiritual core.