In response to Nasir Ismail's letter, "Westerners target Muslims to perpetuate religious hate," March 21, while I agree with some of the points you made, I also disagree with your last statement that the West hates, while Muslims don't.

You cannot group the West into one group as a whole -- not all of us hate. Some people are intolerant of what they do not know of and others accept everyone. I know that each country has been intolerant of a religion or of another race. One could state that Muslims hate and Westerners don't, especially with what has been happening in recent years. But I do not group Muslims as a whole because not everyone has participated in what has happened. Extend the same courtesy and stop grouping Westerners together and making us seem evil when we are not. We have all made mistakes that we are not proud of, but we learn from them.