Many Americans think of Shariah as an Islamic legal system characterized by misogyny, intolerance, and harsh punishments.
Intolerance is intolerable.
Xavier Bonilla, the cartoonist who angered Mr. Correa, said that the harsh reaction to political humor signals an increasing intolerance, which could intensify if the president wins re-election.
The governor of Punjab province, the most populous in Pakistan, Mr Taseer was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and of the country's harsh and arbitrary blasphemy law.
He left a substantial body of theoretical work from the 1960s onwards, demonstrating how the framing of the immigration "debate", and the harsh policies adopted by various governments, were fuelling racism and intolerance within Britain's civil society.
It also shows the atmosphere of intolerance and xenophobia that has resulted from Putin's harsh anti-Western rhetoric, the numerous legal norms introduced by his government to limit Western — and more generally modernizing — influences, and the raw propaganda appearing daily on television.
A summary of symptoms of arrogance include the following: intolerance of people different from themselves, inability to see different points of view, extremely harsh criticism of those they don't like, inability to form long-lasting relationships, and general narcissism.
Mr. Hollande had urged politicians to watch their "vocabulary," while Mr. Bayrou had criticized the harsh anti-immigrant statements of Mr. Sarkozy and Ms. Le Pen as a contributing factor "to a growing climate of intolerance" that led to the singling out of minorities.
In Tehran, thick crowds marched down a central avenue in midmorning, defying official warnings of a harsh crackdown on protests as they chanted "death to Khamenei," referring to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has expressed growing intolerance for political dissent in the country.
We have to face the harsh reality that over the last several decades, we, as Americans, have not done nearly enough to combat racism, discrimination and intolerance.
