I read your newspaper regularly. It gives me a lot of information/news of Fayette County.

Being a resident of the beautiful city of Peachtree City, I am very much interested about the happenings in the county.

I am writing in response to a letter published in your Sept. 27, 2006 issue by Ms. Janice Summers [“Carter and The Muslim Jihad”]. I did not read the article of Jeff Carter. But I strongly disagree with her views of Muslims.

Many Muslim leaders in USA and many Muslim heads of state of Muslim countries condemned the 9/11 attacks and the attacks there [as being] done by some misguided individuals.

The leaders of Islamic Society of North America (based in Indiana), Islamic Circle of North America (based in Virginia) and many prominent American Muslim leaders condemned the attacks on innocent people in the world.

On the international scene, President Musharraf of Pakistan and President Karzai of Afghanistan, to name a few Muslim leaders, not only condemned terrorism but also are helping the international community in fighting terrorism in the world.

Last week these two leaders met President Bush in the White House to affirm their support in President Bush in his “war on terror.”

Ms. Summers is advising Mr. Carter to to go and live in a Muslim country with his family because they don’t like women over there. I’d like to mention here that women were elected to the highest office in the two most populous Muslim countries of the world, Bangladesh and Pakistan. I can give a long list of women in government/non-government positions in the Muslim countries.

If we Americans blame each other for the problems of the world, then when do we have time to help President Bush solve these problems?

Sajid Farooqi
Peachtree City, Ga.

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