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Religious Intolerance

Should Good People go to Hell?

Junaid Jahangir | Posted 10.29.2012 | Canada
Read More: Religious Pluralism, Love-One-Another, Ahmadi Muslims, Pakistan, Mother Teresa, Religious Intolerance, Religious Extremists, Canada News
Junaid Jahangir

A faculty member at an elite educational institution in Pakistan mentioned in his recent Express Tribune blog piece that more than 80 per cent of his students replied in the negative on the question of Mother Teresa's entering Heaven. The overwhelming majority of students reasoned that despite saving thousands of lives, she was not a Muslim. The essence of all these discussions was that notwithstanding good deeds, it was the correct belief that decided salvation. I think being a good human being trumps religious beliefs and rituals any day.

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The Perils of Pauline

Bernie Farber | Posted 10.25.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Sikh Turbans, Kippah-Controversy, Religious Intolerance, Pauline Marois, Hijab, Pauline Marois Bigot, Canada Politics News
Bernie Farber

One would hope that the days of politically motivated religious discrimination are far behind us. Yet the disdain and intolerance demonstrated so avidly by Pauline Marois threatens to bring us back to darker, more foreboding times. Along with the other vestiges of bigotry appearing today, can it be that the accepting, multicultural national we have worked toward in the last number of decades has been for naught?

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