While moslems certainly shouldn't be attacked, injured, or persecuted, I don't see a reason to tolerate their beliefs, as least intellectually. We shouldn't need to tiptoe around the issue of Islam being a violent, dangerous, irrational faerietale. It is. Just like Christianity, except I would argue that in some ways, Christianity can be worse when in the hands of the most powerful nation on Earth. I am afraid of Bush and his theocratic cronies more than Islamic terrorists.

Islam is inherently bad, just as Christianity is inherently bad. Faith itself is bad. Neither are actually compatible with enlightenment values. We just shoehorn them into it and ignore the blatant contradictions.

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I am intolerant. I am intolerant of murder. I am intolerant of theft. I am intolerant of quite a few things. I think tolerance of many things is important, the tolerating of behavior that is different from what you believe is right but does not unwillingly harm others.

The toleration of prostitution or polygamy.

I think Pjohns is incompatible with tolerance

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Viva Fidel

"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

You're right! Genocide for the win!

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Corporation, noun: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
~Ambrose Bierce

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.

~Dom Helder Camara

Businessmen have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public.

~Adam Smith

Well this was like a collage freshman study group. I am toleranced out.

I think logical people can make decisions on a case by case basis we dont need to drill in words like "tolerance" to make anything better. I don't think it works.

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Tolerating the intolerant is the hypocritical thing.

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Corporation, noun: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
~Ambrose Bierce

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.

~Dom Helder Camara

Businessmen have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public.

~Adam Smith

Not really.

But if you don't tolerate the intolerant then you are being intolerant yourself and, so, you have to stop tolerating yourself because you're intolerant.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

That sentence has so many occurrences of forms of the word tolerant in it so much it made me laugh.

Wrong. Being intolerant of the intolerant is not intolerance.

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Corporation, noun: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
~Ambrose Bierce

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.

~Dom Helder Camara

Businessmen have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public.

~Adam Smith