Comments on: 1949: Nathuram Godse, Gandhi’s assassin http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Dr. Thinus Coetzee http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-48 Dr. Thinus Coetzee Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:46:45 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-48 Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. - JFK Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. - JFK

]]> By: Headsman http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-39 Headsman Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:48:35 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-39 Putative saints merit ambivalence by definition. Putative saints merit ambivalence by definition.

]]> By: jeff http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-32 jeff Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:32:30 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-32 you seem . . . ambivalent about Gandhi. but perhaps this is just your even-handedness regarding the assassin. odd, isn't it, that we would find ourselves considering the logic of the assassin so closely? or the failings of gandhi? and wouldn't it be ironic if we thought gandhi's greatest failing were his insistence on toleration? i don't. but in these times, when so many "liberals" would like to simply exclude those ideologically opposed to liberal democracy from participating in it, well, what we are prepared to tolerate in the name of toleration seems to have become a central point of contention. you seem . . . ambivalent about Gandhi. but perhaps this is just your even-handedness regarding the assassin. odd, isn’t it, that we would find ourselves considering the logic of the assassin so closely? or the failings of gandhi?

and wouldn’t it be ironic if we thought gandhi’s greatest failing were his insistence on toleration?

i don’t. but in these times, when so many “liberals” would like to simply exclude those ideologically opposed to liberal democracy from participating in it, well, what we are prepared to tolerate in the name of toleration seems to have become a central point of contention.

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