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Obama's Dangerous Equivalency: "Intolerance Is Itself a Form of Violence"

Steve of CA Wrote: Sep 27, 2012 2:44 AM

First of all, Obama went through a whole list of people to whom the future must not belong, such as the killers of Ambassador Stevens or those who target coptic Christians in Egypt. In the sentence cited above it was immediately followed by: "But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied." Secondly, intolerance as I understand it involves not just words but unwillingness to allow various groups of people the same rights others enjoy

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Obama's Dangerous Equivalency: "Intolerance Is Itself a Form of Violence"

President Obama's United Nations address has received a great deal of scrutiny, including yesterday's sharp take from Katie. She and Allahpundit both pointed out Obama's contradictory admonitions and behavior. In an interview taped Monday, the president told the ladies of 'The View' that the best course of action is to ignore offensive speech -- then he highlighted and denounced an inflammatory YouTube video six times in an internationally-televised speech the very next day. Obama took care to sound all the right notes for his domestic...

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