Bangladesh, Oct. 21 -- We can feel sympathy for the family of David Amess, but must not let that sympathy lead us astray, cause us to accept their request, well-meaning and wrong, that “whatever one’s race, religious or political beliefs, be tolerant and try to understand”. Writes Hugh Fitzgerald

The family of the murdered MP David Amess has issued a statement which I wish they hadn’t. It expresses a belief commonly shared, part of the zeitgeist in the advanced Western world, the spirit of a forced “tolerance” that tries to suppress all-natural feeling or human understanding.

The family of British lawmaker David Amess, who was stabbed to death as he met constituency voters, on Sunday urged people to be tolerant regardless of race, relig...