The True Jihad
Tolerance!!
Its Significance Today
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TOLERANCE!!
ITS SIGNIFICANCE TODAY
“Requite evil with good...”
(Qur’an, 23:96)
On January 1st, 1995, newspapers flashed the
news that “the United Nations has proclaimed
1995 as the ‘Year of Tolerance,’” saying that the
ability to be tolerant of the
actions, beliefs and opinions of
others is a major factor in
promoting world peace. Amidst
the
resurgence
of
ethnic
conflicts, discrimination against
minorities
and
xenophobia
directed against refugees and
asylum-seekers, tolerance is the
only way forward, said the
statement of the United Nations
Educational,
Scientific
and
Cultural
Organisation,
(UNESCO). It is said, racism and
religious fanaticism in many
The ability to
be tolerant of
the actions,
beliefs and
opinions of
others is a
major factor
in promoting
world peace.
—The United
Nations
