As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter, they reflect on God’s purposes amid suffering and death. Yet there is another aspect to the Easter story that should be as important to the skeptic as it is to the believer: its message of religious toleration.

One of the great themes of the Christian Easter story is that the love of God can overcome the worst of human folly, wickedness, weakness — even death itself. This idea, if taken seriously, would be a tonic in many parts of the world today, but perhaps nowhere is it more desperately needed than in the Muslim world.