re: #177 Enkidu90046

One of my best friends is a very religious Black Muslim in the bay area who often lectures at Ivy League universities about Islam and tolerance. The man started an organization called the Hop Hop Chess Federation which teaches chess to inner city kids and has a great number of non-Muslims (and Jews in particular) involved in it. Another friend of mine is Bosnian Muslim women in the Chicago area who is proudly pro-Israel and speaks out against intolerance towards Jews within her community when it rears up. I (a Jew) have dated a Saudi Muslim woman (as in, off the boat), an Iranian Muslim women, an Iraqi Muslim woman, and (gasp) a Palestinian Muslim woman. But I guess all these people are intolerant because they are Muslims…

Seriously, I don’t like ANY religion using public grounds for prayer services… but I am not going to single out Muslims for doing it and call them intolerant.

You can list many cases showing that Muslims do in fact have a capacity for tolerance, and I will agree with you. Hell, I have Muslim friends…very tolerant bunch.

But that doesn’t change the fact that many Muslims have a very poor record on tolerance. And that’s all I was saying.