Culture of tolerance

In an interesting piece, David Ignatius argues that emerging democracies in Arabia must embrace a culture of tolerance to ultimately succeed. He cites our own struggles with this ingredient: "American history is about the gradual development of such a culture of tolerance, and it took us decades to get it right. We revere the Founding Fathers, but Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton spent the 1790s firing rhetorical spitballs at each other. Our young republic bounced between the anarchic protests of the Whiskey Rebellion and the police-state repression of the Alien and Sedition Acts. America was lucky to have a Bill of Rights amending its new Constitution, which guaranteed a base line of tolerance that would make democracy possible."