From a reader:

Jonah,
You and Krauthammer are basically saying the same thing – it’s a one way street. The West must respect Islam, but Islam is under no similar compulsion. But what neither one of you states is that the Islamic world is operating under an ideology in which it fervently, passionately believes, while the West has rejected its traditional morality and cultural foundations in favor of a secularist nonjudgmentalism that inspires no one. How can we will the battle of ideas when our foe is completely committed and we have nothing for which we are willing to fight? To get back to Krauthammer, how can we ask other people to respect on our behalf that which we as a society have long forsaken?