Irish Examiner View: We must nip intolerance in the bud

 For all too long, tolerance was not tolerated.

A man pulls a girl to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan yesterday. Picture: Reuters

The West’s understanding of the absolute, self-serving imperative of tolerance, of accepting difference in others, is fundamental. The idea is all-encompassing, all-empowering, and enriching on so many levels. 

It is not too difficult to understand why this is so, as the last century’s catastrophes showed how intolerance plays out.