Tolerance
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Danila Jonnud, Hampshire While scrolling online the other day, I saw a post listing certain crimes which made the news in Britain, captioned “I’m tired of being tolerant”. The account was an ordinary person’s, with only a handful of views, and yet for some reason it stayed with me. Tolerance can be a lot of
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Ayesha Naseem Mirza, Walsall In school, we regularly learnt about the British values of respect, tolerance, democracy and freedom. Teachers drew constant attention to these values and how we should all try and emulate them in our daily life. It is only with more education, experience of the world and the way people and societies
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Mishal Aziz, Raynes Park, London Today, 16th November, marks International Tolerance Day. Tolerance means the ability to endure subjection to something without a negative reaction. In today’s world where communities are so diverse and multi-cultural, we need tolerance more than ever in order to maintain peace in society. Many non-Muslims object that the Holy Prophet
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park, London In the modern world, the word Islam unfortunately, and most wrongly, carries the connotation of intolerance and violence. The truth could not be further from this unjust and ill-informed accusation. The word Islam is quite literally the Arabic word for peace and also for submission. From just this it is
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Rubina Ahmedi, Manchester, UK Do you know who lives next door to you? Above you or they may live on the floor below? When I was a young girl we all had street parties, we knew everyone in our street. If my mum was baking a cake and we ran out of eggs or sugar
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