My letter in Daily Excelsior,Jammu(J&K)18th June,2016
The recent decision of UAE to approve and implement national program for tolerance is really worth appreciating and speaks a lot of the vision this peace-loving country has. Tolerance is an environment where people can fully enjoy freedom of thought and religion and are allowed to live by the faith and values they believe in. In a civil society, everyone has the right to live freely by his beliefs, whatever they may be. In fact, tolerance is the result of humanity where people believe in each other’s faith and belief. Tolerance also aims at protecting and nurturing the human values like love, compassion, empathy and kindness and thus help needy and innocent at the time of grave distress and misery. The crux of tolerance lies in the idea of treating all the people equally. As a matter of fact, all human beings under the Sun are bound to commit some kind of mistakes and slipups. Let these issues be pardoned reciprocally, that is the first law of tolerance. In the present day scenario this spirit and message of tolerance needs to be widely circulated and globally adhered to.
Intolerance has multifaceted dimensions. It could be racial intolerance or religious intolerance or even gender intolerance. The phenomenon of intolerance has far-reaching implications. Firstly it arouses cynicism and then eventually gives rise to violence, terrorism and other subversive activities which more or less distract the entire human progress around the world. Therefore, a method needs to be evolved through which the challenge of intolerance could be effectively dealt with. For this purpose, it is essential to educate the people more especially the younger generation about the horrific results of intolerance and virtues of tolerance and inculcate in them the basic values of humanity and fraternity.
Yours etc….
Dr Shiben Krishen Raina
Ajman UAE
Intolerance has multifaceted dimensions. It could be racial intolerance or religious intolerance or even gender intolerance. The phenomenon of intolerance has far-reaching implications. Firstly it arouses cynicism and then eventually gives rise to violence, terrorism and other subversive activities which more or less distract the entire human progress around the world. Therefore, a method needs to be evolved through which the challenge of intolerance could be effectively dealt with. For this purpose, it is essential to educate the people more especially the younger generation about the horrific results of intolerance and virtues of tolerance and inculcate in them the basic values of humanity and fraternity.
Yours etc….
Dr Shiben Krishen Raina
Ajman UAE
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