The prevalence of specifically racial offenses shouldn't blind us to a kind of bigotry jiu-jitsu that often follows in the wake of these incidents, in which the offenders quickly flip the script to portray themselves as the victims of intolerance toward their own intolerant remarks.
The intolerance toward traditional culture alienated the gentry and the people alike.
"It was a very strong, clear, nonhateful statement about intolerance toward these kinds of acts," Mr. Kahn said.
Religious tolerance aside, what they have in common with Tunisia is a general intolerance toward dissent, whether secular or religious.
The administration has exhibited intolerance toward the rest of the world, unless all agree and walk in lock step behind the policies of the ruling neoconservatives.
I am alarmed and terrified by the rise of the extreme right in Italy, by intolerance toward foreigners, and by acts of brutal violence perpetrated against them.
They wrote that while pluralism was fine, the adhan espouses Muslim intolerance toward other faiths by stating that the Prophet Muhammad is God's messenger.
Though criticized on occasion for intolerance toward religious diversity, the patriarch, at the age of 74, enjoys enormous popularity in this mostly Orthodox Christian country of 4.6 million.
Human Rights Watch reported "a government policy of intolerance" toward Muslim believers: arbitrary detentions and arrests, beatings and threats, fabrication of evidence, and torture.
It has been criticized, however, as overly dogmatic and militant and as having exhibited an aggressive intolerance toward both Christianity and Islam.
The opposition, meantime, has condemned what it says is overzealous application of the law in a way that, its leaders say, sends a message of intolerance toward Islam and foreigners.
