Look how Jews and Muslims battle for their religions. If you burn a Qur'an, Muslims are willing to behead you. How can you be respected if you're docile? Christians are more or less Buddhists. By protected class, it means, they'll fuck your shit up.
Christians have to protect themselves. I didn't see any Christians go to battle over their Churches being closed during COVID. Mosques stayed open cuz they would've allahu ekber'd the whole place.