An irony of history is that Berlin has almost always been considered a tolerant and liberal town, from its earliest days as a village on the banks of the River Spree.
She said: "We are a very quiet tolerant, peaceful town and when I heard about this I was appalled".
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Ibn Arabi was one of the great minds of his day, a standard bearer of Islamic Spain at the height of its scientific and philosophical achievement, and the tolerant and pluralistic university town of Fes was the perfect setting for his talents.
At the same time, though, my spirit felt deflated by the sobering lesson of this hate crime: no matter how tolerant you think your town is, no matter how safe your space seems, it can always be infiltrated by haters.
Vast areas of government-owned lawns will be replaced by drought-tolerant landscaping, and towns will be banned from watering ornamental grass.
"The older people in town are more tolerant, willing to wait and talk to each other and resolve it among themselves as opposed to calling in the police or the zoning officer," said Mr. Hall.
