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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: A short essay on tolerance
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 12:54:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 31 12:54:54 1985
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I fail to see why some of my co-religionists are finding all sorts of
excuses for folks who firebombed a church in Jerusalem.  The neighbors
don't like it -- so what?  Lots of Cossacks, Poles, Germans, *Arabs*,
etc., haven't liked having Jewish neighbors.  Many whites have objected
to blacks moving in next door.  It is very difficult to claim the moral
high ground when others discriminate against Jews, but be silent when
Jews are discriminating against Christians (to say nothing of resorting
to violence).  I for one will not remain silent; I will condemn such
as often and as loudly as I condemn synagogue bombings, cross burnings,
and other acts of bigotry.

		--Steve Bellovin