While I'm on the subject of clueless letter writers, I should mention one from two or three weeks ago whose name I have charitably forgotten. In a letter about the war in Iraq, and in passing, he mentioned as known fact the belief that Moslems cannot go to Heaven unless they kill an Infidel (read: Christian).
One has to feel sorry for those Moslems, since as far as I can tell 99.999% of them have never killed an Infidel, and so are relegated to Hell. Oh, I suspect that most of them have had thoughts of killing somebody at one time or another, but the object of their homicidal thoughts is far less likely to be some unknown Infidel than it is the equally Moslem kid next door who plays his boom box at top volume until three in the morning.
We also tend, these days, to equate "terrorism" with "Moslems". True enough, far more Moslems are involved with terrorism than any other group; but the vast majority of these are not themselves terrorists but the innocent victims of terrorism, those hundreds (by now, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands) of innocent people blown up in marketplace suicide bombings and the like. By contrast, the terrorists themselves are a tiny minority, even among Moslems.