Dear USPS Customer,

Thank you for contacting us. USPS welcomes the opportunity to address any concerns that you may have.

We have received your recent email concerning the USPS decision to release the EID stamp. We have read your concerns about the Muslim religion and the acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens. We understand your concerns but feel there are misguided. The attacks against the US were not acts by the Muslim world or condoned by the Muslim Religion. These acts of terrorism were carried out by a faction of the Muslim faith that hide behind an incorrect interpretation of the Muslim religion.

Throughout history acts of terrorism, murder, theft, etc have resulted from individuals using religion as a basis to eliminate those of another culture, religion, or country. If you look at every major religion in the world, at one point a faction of that religion has terrorized those of another. This is evident in the Christian Crusades during the Middle ages, the Hindu-Muslim wars that carry on through today, the slaughter of Native Americans, or the recent attacks on the US and Israel. In the present day when the movement for peace and understanding is so important we must all understand that these acts are not done by Islam, they are committed by individuals that use religion as an excuse to display their hatred. We feel it is important that people, especially Americans understand the true meaning of Islam and the peaceful nature for which it stands.

Thank you again.

USPS Internet Customer Care Center

"The USPS wrote, We have read your concerns about the Muslim religion and the acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens. We understand your concerns but feel there are misguided. The attacks against the U.S. were not acts by the Muslim world or condoned by the Muslim Religion. These acts of terrorism were carried out by a faction of the Muslim faith that hide behind an incorrect interpretation of the Muslim religion.

We feel it is important that people, especially Americans understand the true meaning of Islam and the peaceful nature for which it stands. My Response:

Your response was as I expected. However, you offered no objective evidence for your position. Your response is based on the statement that you "feel" my concerns are misguided. What if others "feel" they are not misguided?

Whose "feelings" will be the standard? Your subjectivism is typical of postmodern thinking. By it, you should not have to obey the law of the land if you "feel" a need to disobey it.

The Koran says, "Many a time will the infidels wish they had been Muslims. Let them feast and enjoy themselves, and let hope beguile them: but they shall know the truth at last" ("Hedjr" 15:2).

"This Book is not other than a warning and a clear Koran, to warn whosoever liveth; and, that against the infidels sentence may be justly given" ("Ya. Sin" 36:69-70).

"And fight for the cause of God against those who fight against you: but commit not the injustice of attacking them first: God loveth not such injustice: And kill them wherever ye shall find them, and eject them from whatever place they have ejected you; for civil discord is worse than carnage: yet attack them not at the sacred Mosque, unless they attack you therein; but if they attack you, slay them. Such the reward of infidels" ("The Cow" 2:186-187).

All the political correctness, multicultural "diversity" and ecumenical platitudes in Washington cannot change the fact that Islam is a religion which teaches its adherents to kill "infidels." According to Islam, "infidels" are all non-Moslems, and that includes every person in the world who worships the One True God through His Son Jesus Christ.

If you can read the words of Islam's "Holy Book" itself and refuse to understand that this religion preaches violence against all who do not embrace it, then I have some some ocean front property in Western Oklahoma I'd like to sell you.

Jerry C. Brewer

To My Unnamed USPS Correspondent:

You wrote, "The attacks against the U.S. were not acts by the Muslim world or condoned by the Muslim Religion. These acts of terrorism were carried out by a faction of the Muslim faith that hide behind an incorrect interpretation of the Muslim religion."

My Response:

To which part of the Muslim world do you refer? Those who danced in the streets in Palestine at the news of the World Trade Center Bombings, or others? Which religious world carried out these attacks? Shintoism? Budhdism?

Who speaks for the "Muslim Religion?" Is there a person or body of persons who have authority to speak for the Muslim world who said they did not condone these attacks? Please document this for me.

Who has determined that "a faction of the Muslim faith" hides "behind an incorrect interpretation of the Muslim religion?" Who decides what the "correct" interpretation is? Is not one man's interpretation as good as another so that, in reality, there is no "correct" interpretation?

Islam is a violent, bloody religion more closely represented by Osama bin Laden than any other faction in the Muslim world.

Jerry C. Brewer