Surely in his letter, His Highness Prince Aga Khan (Allah be with him) through his humble mouthpiece (oops, I mean humble servant) Ms. Saloni Vastani, renounced terrorism, jihad, anti-semitism, Christian persecution and murder, honor killings of girls who have been raped, sanctioned murder of those who choose to leave Islam and become Baptists or Methodists. Surely, he condemned all those practices.

Alas, he did not. All we got from His Highness and his Shia Imami Ismaili Council was a lecture on how naughty it is to be mean to Muslims.

Well, pardon me for bringing this up, but after watching Muslims storm an embassy and hold American hostages for 444 days (something an earlier letter writer named Carter should know quite a bit about), and then watching Muslims blow up a Marine barracks killing more than 200 American servicemen; oh, and then seeing them hijack a cruise ship and throw a wheelchair-bound man overboard; and then watching Muslims blow up a Berlin nightclub, a Pan-Am 747 over Scotland, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, a U.S. Navy warship (the USS Cole), and, oh yeah, don’t forget, killing 2,996 innocent people in the deadliest foreign attack on American soil since the War of 1812, you will have to excuse my less-than-go-with-the-flow attitude toward a Muslim-sponsored mosque going up in my community.

If His Highness (Allah be with him) wants the Fayette community to embrace him and his Muslim brethren, he could start by renouncing all of the above-mentioned actions, and (just a thought here) apologizing for the actions of, as he calls it, a “misguided handful of individuals.”

That might not do the trick, but it would be a start. As for the letter he wrote this week, I suspect his words might make him more enemies than friends.

Steve Eubanks
Peachtree City, Ga.

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