| The Need for Education | | Print | |
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Page 3 of 3 Today, we do not seem to have learned lessons from past tragedies and atrocities. Anti-Semitism is indeed a light sleeper and resurfacing, while Islamophobia has become the new accepted face of xenophobia, of promoted hatred and racism.
We must go beyond creating a culture of tolerance to one of a culture of trust and acceptance. Toleration is dangerous and fickle, a thin crust which separates reason from violence, and can easily crack under the slightest pressure, and neither community will fully live at ease with one another unless we understand how to stop the anger, often intentionally, provoked and spread on both sides, and how to deal with it. |