Introduction Toleration has become a cardinal virtue in the West and countries influenced by the West. Like equality, it is understood as a virtue related to freedom or liberty. In democratic societies, toleration is a necessary virtue to restrain the tyranny of the majority. Peculiarly, toleration of preferred minorities over against others has become the mark of twenty-first century, Western democracies. This is because certain minority communities actually support majority perspectives at a higher level of abstraction, such as when the 2% homosexual population is given affirmation as a minority expression because it supports the more abstract or general affirmation of sexual freedom. Caricature and persecution of those holding to tradition views of sexuality and marriage are, suddenly, legitimate objects of derision and persecution. Over against Western culture’s experiment with these virtues lie many Islamic societies’ practices of intolerance. Beating, impriso