Letters to the Editor

Updated February 12 2016 - 1:08pm, first published 11:52am

 lent is an ideal time to give up intolerance

Lent is said to be a time of self-imposed abstinence. This Lent maybe it's time we go a little further and try to give up more than chocolates. We could give up pre-judging others, whether by force of habit, narrow-minded nurture or just plain self-limiting fear. For instance, we may tend to equate Islam with dangerous extremism ( thanks no doubt to the well-publicized IS fondness for beheading and torching people).

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