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NEWS ABOUT: tolerance

tolerance stories: 6 news summaries
OPINION

Powell's Anti-Islamophobia Stance Tops Endorsement

Too many in both parties let stabs at Muslim faith go unparried

Oct 20, 08 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Colin Powell's Barack Obama endorsement wasn’t the only, or even most, notable aspect of his Meet the Press appearance: equally crucial was his rejection of Islamophobia, an issue too long skirted in this country, Abed Z. Bhuyan writes in the Washington Post/Newsweek Faithbook blog. In doing so, “Colin... More »

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Barack Obama • Islam • religion • tolerance • Colin Powell • endorsement • Meet the Press • Election 2008 • Islamophobia

Obama's Accepting Outlook Forged in Diverse Hawaii

Island state's tolerant spirit helped shape candidate's worldview

Aug 7, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama spent his formative years in Hawaii and islanders say the unique and diverse nature of the 50th state helped shape the candidate's outlook on life, the AP reports. Obama's racial identity was forged in the state where everybody belongs to a minority group, and the accomodating nature of... More »

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Barack Obama • Hawaii • tolerance • ethnic diversity

OPINION

Peggy Noonan, for One,
Is Not Offended

Rev. Wright merely latest, most-publicized participant in Whitman's 'barbaric yawp'

May 2, 08 6:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Peggy Noonan wonders if there's something wrong with her for not being upset over Jeremiah Wright’s extremist sermons. No, she decides in the Wall Street Journal, she just doesn’t “think his views carry deep implications for our country”—and indeed understands the bitterness, drawing on the... More »

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anger • tolerance • Jeremiah Wright • Peggy Noonan • Irish

O'Reilly Frets Over Outing
of Wizard

Anchor concerned
that Potter pushes  gay-straight 'parity'

Oct 26, 07 7:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Perhaps worried that JK Rowling has opened the closet too widely, Bill O'Reilly has made Albus Dumbledore's outing a frequent topic this week, bemoaning the promotion of “parity for homosexuals with heterosexuals.” Calling the Harry Potter author a “provocateur,” the Fox anchor says adults are worried... More »

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Harry Potter • Bill O'Reilly • homosexuality • tolerance • Albus Dumbledore

German Leaders Reject Scientology Ban

Stumbling block is procedural, not philosophical

Aug 8, 07 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - German leaders say they won't press for a ban on Scientology—not because they're against it, but because they don't think it would succeed. The German government officially considers the organization a cult, Der Spiegel reports, but politicians from both major parties say that they probably don't have enough evidence... More »

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Scientology • Germany • religion • ban • tolerance

Editor's Murder Shows Failure
of Tolerance

Hitchens hits cops for abetting criminality
in religious guise 

Aug 7, 07 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The notoriously irreligious Christopher Hitchens decries the Oakland police's tolerance of Your Black Muslim Bakery, one of whose employees has been arrested for the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. In an op-ed for Slate Hitchens writes that the bakery is in fact a front for jihadism and that... More »

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jihad • Christopher Hitchens • murder • Muslim • racism • Oakland • Your Black Muslim Bakery • Chauncey Bailey • tolerance • Ron Dellums • Barbara Lee

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