"Tolerance" in New York Jack Kemp With Mayor Bloomberg calling for his fellow New Yorkers to show tolerance for the proposed mosque at Ground Zero, what would you think if I told you that the proposed mosque may feel free to have an exterior sign that might say "There is none worthy of worship but Allah, Mohammed is the messenger of Allah" and also "Islam is the way Read the Holy Qur'an The Final Revelation?"   You may think “am I off my medications” or what nutty right wing website did I get this idea from - or was it from a Klu Klux Klan website? Actually, I got from the street sign on the exterior wall of the Madina Masjid mosque in Manhattan on 401 East 11th Street (on the First Avenue wall, just yards east of the corner). You can see it in the accompanying photo - or if you are adept at using Google Earth, look at it there. Now the truth is that every religious denomination in the world thinks its way of connecting to the Supreme Being is the right way and all others are partially or totally incorrect. It is just that, particularly in America, most religious denominations have the good grace to not put that message on a sign facing the public street, essentially belittling all other religions. If this is an example of the "tolerance" we are supposed to cultivate at Ground Zero or on First Avenue, then we should be asking Mayor Bloomberg and Nancy Pelosi exactly where is the tolerance in such a sign. If such a sign is "tolerated" on East Eleventh Street, then why not a similar statement or something else in the same vein of "tolerance" on the proposed fifteen story building at Ground Zero?