This apparently simple question is a bit tricky. The answer which appears automatic from the phrasing of the question is - of course! How can you yourself be intolerant (whether towards people you view as intolerant, or to any other group) and at the same time de facto require others to be tolerant? That appears to be almost synonymous with hypocrisy.

However... the point is that one can be intolerant of intolerant behavior or intolerant attitudes, without being intolerant of those displaying such. That is not hypocritical. I can be completely accepting and loving of a person who is intolerant of e.g. gays, while at the same time sharply rebuking him/her for being intolerant. I can respond harshly for any such inappropriate behavior as gay-bashing, without hating him/her. The point is that I would be rejecting the attitude and behaviors, without rejecting the person.

Being gay, or Jewish, or Muslim, or African American, or Hispanic, etc. (pick your favorite group suffering from prejudice) is not an attitude or behavior one can modify. Thus, you cannot be intolerant of someone for being e.g. Hispanic, while at the same time accepting him or her as a person. You can, and in fact must, be intolerant of the attitude and behavior of prejudice and intolerance, which a person can and should push himself or herself to unlearn, while at the same time accepting them as a person.

I used to say "The only prejudice I have is against prejudiced people." I was talking about racial prejudice, but you get my drift. Prejudice is prejudice. Intolerance is intolerance.

The difference lies in whether you are on the side of right, or on the side of wrong, and who is defining right or wrong. If the majority of society finds a behavior intolerable, such as racial hatred, then being on the side of the majority is for all intents and purposes "right" by societal standards.

In the case of religious intolerance, there seems to be a growing trend toward Christianity portraying itself as being "discriminated against" or "picked on" or "denigrated", when in fact, they are the major world religion (with over 80% of those professing to follow a religion saying they are Christian). It's awfully hard to discriminate against that many people at one time.

For thousands of years, Christian religious intolerance and violence has cost millions of dollars and lives, yet they are the first to cry "foul" if anyone criticizes them at all. They are without fault, supposedly, and everyone else is a "heathen". Now that other religious groups are standing up against their perpetual bullying tactics and their own intolerance, they are crying again.

So is it wrong to be intolerant of anyone or anything that is, and has proven itself to be over thousands of years, violently intolerant of anything that opposes it? I think not.

The fastest growing religious movement in the world is Eclectic Paganism. People want to define their own paths, and are leaving established religions of all sorts and doing so. And in response, the intolerance and persecution by established religions against pagans has increased accordingly. So is their intolerance right, since they are in the majority? You tell me.

Of course it is, how could being intolerant towards any one person or group of people and claiming to be tolerant person ever be not considered hypocritical? One cannot say they are tolerant and be intolerant, that is at the base of the definition of hypocritical

If we are to claim we are tolerant we must be all inclusive in this claim. Those that are intolerant must be viewed and needing help in seeing through tolerant eyes not needing to be exiled or chastised or excluded. From the vantage point of tolerance it is the job of all who claim tolerance as a character trait to help those who are intolerant, not we ourselves become intolerant of them.

Tolerance begets tolerance and intolerance begets intolerance. One cannot subtract intolerance from the social fabric equation by adding intolerance to the social fabric equation. Simple socio-math.

This is not easy and is perhaps the most difficult rung of the ladder of tolerance to grab and pull but it is the one and only most important step up the ladder to a more civilized society where the percentage of tolerant people grows until it is 100%. Adding one iota of intolerance to the equation for any reason will only impede the progress a tolerant person tries to hold in regard, emulate as they see it in others, and hope for in a more Utopian version of society as a whole.