Fallout From Recent Bombing

I make note of Shabbir Mansuri’s comment in “Muslims Brace for Reaction to Bombing” (June 27).

I agree that condemnation of all Muslims for this terrorist act is unwarranted. However, to equate terrorist acts with the bombing of Hiroshima that resulted in the surrender of the Japanese is offensive to me.

I don’t know where you were in 1944, but my brother was fighting in the Pacific, and I was about to go into the service. We all knew that the Japanese would fight to the last man were the home islands invaded. The atomic bomb saved thousands of American lives, and no one should ever forget it.

DAVID W. LANG

Corona del Mar

* We commend that fine article.

It is time for people of goodwill to stand up and to stand together.

On June 22, Orange County Asian Pacific and Latino leaders (without a single African American present or asking for the action) issued a joint statement condemning the burning of black churches in America. They did this because they recognized that bigoted violence against any group in America is an attack on all of us.

One of the first persons to praise this action was Shabbir Mansuri, founding director of the Council on Islamic Education in Fountain Valley.

Then a huge bomb went off in Saudi Arabia, killing many Americans stationed there. According to The Times, Mansuri’s 16-year-old daughter saw it on TV and said, “Here we go again, Daddy.” Would this mean another round of generalized hostility for American Muslims, who are as shocked and saddened by that senseless terrorist attack as anyone else?

It is time for people of goodwill to stand up and stand together against hurtful lumping of persons by race and religion in order to target them with hateful blame.

The Times had the courage to show the outrageously unjust pain vicious stereotyping can bring to fellow Americans. We thank you.

AMIN DAVID

Chair

Los Amigos of Orange County

Anaheim