A response

This letter is in response to Mr. Hussein Touhid's own rebuttal to how "Ohio has failed the world" (Wednesday, November 24, 2004). Mr. Touhid, small wonder that you are currently a resident of Texas; however, crude red-neck jokes aside, your previous letter to the editor registered severe misgivings in me. Try and understand, Mr. Touhid, it is exactly through the course of 'rationality' that you talk about that people oppose the Bush regime. If everyone were as irrational as you claim most people to be, then all of mankind would have been more collusive with the idea of unjust wars (the one being waged on Iraq) and divestment of individual freedom (the 'freedom' you feel that America provides to its citizens by infringing on their civil liberties through the implementation of such atrocities as the Patriot Act).

Mr. Touhid, to further our discussion on how America 'treats its human beings,' I would like you to re-consider your own position as one such 'human being' in the United States. Don't you feel the need to relate to the harsh manner in which the Bush administration is treating the travellers coming to the US (especially travellers who have to carry the 'burden' of being from a Muslim country or having a Muslim name, such as yourself)? Also, do you not, again, feel the need to relate to how the cumulative Muslim community in the United States is being marginalised as a result of Bush's post 9-11 haunt tactics?

Lastly, Mr. Touhid, a question with respect to the moral integrity of one particular statement that you articulate. When you say that people ought to leave their 'emotions aside,' what are you thinking? How is anyone supposed to bracket off their emotive impulses as they assess George Bush and the brutal injustices that are the direct result of his moronic policies at home and draconian hegemony abroad?