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Article: So this is what Islam means by tolerance.(Column)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2006
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Byline: PETER HITCHENS
STUPID attacks on religion make me angry. I specially loathe the pubescent sneers of the film Life Of Brian, which an entire generation seems to think is the last word on Christianity.
I feel faintly ill whenever I hear John Lennon's smug, brainless atheist hymn Imagine.
So a large part of me sympathises with Muslims who object to cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Every educated person knows such drawings upset the Islamic faithful.
But, even so, I feel I have to defend the cartoons because of the nature of the protests against them.
Just look at the disgusting, openly murderous placards carried by ...