Are we actually becoming Intolerant while claiming to be Tolerant

While the points you made are highly relevant, I still contend that we lean more toward being intolerant than tolerant. Take for example the Muslim populace of the UK as well as the US. When the terrible events of 9/11 signalled the beginning of the War on Terror, and a Global Jihad was called upon for every Muslim, to fulfil against any country that supported the US, I believe, that the Muslim communities in both countries were by majority largely silent, bearing in mind they reside and make their homes within these two countries. Also by their own admission, the Western countries they reside, are incompatable with their way of life. And so it follows they try to subvert the cultures they chose to live with and turn their way of life to suit their religious beliefs and way of life. That is not a tolerant action to take for the country you have chosen to reside and make your home. Or we may take the recent case of Donald Sterling. While the comments were racist in nature they clearly do not differ from any racial comment Al Sharpton may make concerning white people. The only difference is the fact that Donald Sterling received a life Ban and Al Sharpton gets his own show. "White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires". We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." Clearly an intolerant point of view by Al Sharpton, but which was overlooked and allowed to slide. There is clearly one rule for one and one for another in society which makes a mockery of claiming to be an all tolerant society. Donald Sterling, clearly made unsavoury remarks, but in doing so had his freedom to do so taken away from him, while Al Sharpton, was allowed to make those remarks and keep his freedom to do so. Or take for instance the case of Jeremy Clarkson, the British TV presenter who was witch hunted and vilified for nothing other than mumbling his way through an age old nursey rhyme and then by his own admission saying not to use that take in the recording due to the fact it contained a racist word. He had to go so far as to practically get on his knees and beg forgiveness. We are a society that judges people on what they say, their points of view,whether they like or dislike an individual or certain sections of society and vilifies those who fall short of what those who make the law deem unsavoury. In so doing, my view is that we are leaning more and more towards an Orwellian future as we strive to hammer home to every citizen the law of tolerance. This can only breed intolerance, in my view. While outwardly, contemporary society looks and feels tolerant, undercurrents of true intolerance run deep. As a very famous MP in Britain said, " We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre." "As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood." This speech warned of the intolerance it would create in Britain, but the politicians instead of acting on it chose to condemn the man and speech and continued an open door policy and a deep chasm was rent through British society. For this speech which by the way has come true, he was vilified and made a political pariah, deserted by those who should have stood by him. Where was the tolerance for this mans point of view. His foresight, his intellectual truth's, his freedom afforded him by the democracy he lived in. There was none. I shall say that again, there was none.