Beyond tolerance
Reader comment on item: Guest Column: Just Who Has to Adjust in the Name of Tolerance?

Submitted by Leslie Fish, Mar 1, 2015 21:37

If you'll look at the actual historical records (such as newspaper articles over the past 50 years) you'll see that the Western nations have bent over backwards trying to be tolerant of fundamentalist Islam and the Arab culture that spawned it. We have tolerated excesses from these people that we would never allow to any other religious or ethnic group. We have tried to treat reasonably with unreasonable people and unreasonable demands, even treating them and their complaints as if they really were equivalent to all other groups. Now think: how many Jewish fundamentalists have strapped explosives around their waists and run into buildings to explode them? How many Christian fundamentalists have shot up shopping malls? How many Buddhist fundamentalists have assassinated people for criticizing Buddhism? Now tell me, why should we extend such extreme and special tolerance for fundamentalist Muslims? Equality means equality. It's high time we started treating the Islamofascists as the criminals they are.

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