Against the Politics of Tolerance: Islam, Sexuality and Belonging in the Netherlands
Against The Current vol. 141
Mepschen, Paul
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2344
Date Written: 2009-07-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13535
What could be wrong with tolerance? Would I perhaps prefer intolerance? Of course not -- but if we take a harder look at the concept and the way it was employed, we are able to see that “tolerance” has a paradoxical meaning in present day society. It is accompanied, in fact, by virulent forms of intolerance and exclusion. To illustrate, we may have a look at the debate about Islam in the Netherlands starting in 2001.
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