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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: John Beckett
date: 2006-03-26 10:06:42
subject: Re: Neat

From: John Beckett 

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news::
> "Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, kindness and integrity. That is
> why we have told him if he regrets what he did, then we will forgive him,"
> he told the BBC News website.

This is surely the Greatest Ever Misuse of language! George Orwell could
not have imagined such talk.

This event (wanting to kill someone because they converted to some other
religion) is going to be a test of OUR tolerance. Over the last couple of
years I have been contemplating the conclusion that our tolerance may be
our fatal weakness.

John

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