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What Would Bush Do About the Ground Zero Mosque?

By Andrea StoneAug 17th 2010 – 7:26AM
Doug Mills, AP

Doug Mills, AP

WASHINGTON (Aug. 17) -- The political battle over plans to build an Islamic center two blocks from ground zero is reaching biblical proportions as Republicans pummel President Barack Obama and Democrats for being insensitive to victims of 9/11. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday compared the center -- which...

Background on religious tolerance

Toleration is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating, ie of allowing or permitting, only if one is in a position to disallow”.

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