It is interesting what you make of the recent Koran burning exercise in America and its bloody aftermath in Afghanistan (“Burning Passions,” April 9, 2011). Of all people, you focus on Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president. “Last September,” you point out, “the mere threat to burn a Koran drew big media attention and denunciations from Barack Obama. This time media and politicians kept quiet about the deed.” It was only Karzai who “thundered” against it, and even put out a press release about the outrage, which presumably fomented the ire that ended up with so many dead in the United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif. The Christian fundamentalists from the Dove World Outreach Center, a New Testament Church in Gainesville, Florida, who engaged in the Koran burning, are not even mentioned in your article. Is this supposed to be in line with the media silence that you so praise? Can Christian and Muslim fundamentalists be stopped in their tracks by mere silence? I very much doubt it.