I refer to the letter US treating Muslims shoddily .

First of all, the Sept 11 hijackers were not Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, or anyone else for that matter. They were Muslims. Three thousand Americans of all faiths were slaughtered. So can you blame the Americans for treating Muslims they way they do?

The Americans know that textbooks in some Islamic countries demonise the West. For example, in Saudi Arabia, Saudi schoolchildren are being taught to disparage Christianity and Judaism in a textbook issued by their education ministry.

There is no other country on earth where freedom of religion is not just a slogan, but is actually practised. But America has good reasons to be wary of Muslims. Let us see why.

Ramzi Yousef - He arrived from Pakistan with an Iraqi passport but without a US visa. Claiming political asylum, he was briefly detained for illegal entry, then allowed to enter the US because the immigration authorities lacked space to hold him.

Yousef went on to plot the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, for which he now sits convicted in a US jail.

Mir Aimal Kansi - A Pakistani who received a business visa in 1991 to enter the United States, despite his known history as an Islamist. After arrival, he claimed political asylum based on his ethnic minority status in Pakistan.

He obtained a driver's licence and an AK-47, then went on a murderous rampage outside the CIA headquarters in January 1993, killing two employees and wounding three others. He was convicted in 1997 of capital murder and nine other charges, for which he was executed on Nov 14, 2002 by lethal injection.

Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer - A Palestinian who entered the US illegally from Canada in about 1996, claiming political asylum based on alleged persecution by Israel. Released on a US$5,000 bond (posted by a another illegal alien), he skipped his asylum hearing.

In June 1997, a federal immigration judge ordered Mezer to leave the country on a 'voluntary departure order', which Mezer ignored. He was arrested in July 1997 as he was about to bomb the New York City subways, for which he now sits convicted in a US jail.

Nuradin M Abdi - A Somali, whom prosecutors allege received a bogus 'refugee' status in 1999, then fraudulently obtained a refugee travel document which he used to fly to Ethiopia for al-Qaeda's jihad training. On returning he began plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Ohio, for which he now sits accused in a US jail.

Omar Abdel Rahman - The blind Egyptian sheikh who, although already on a terrorism 'watch list' when he arrived in the US, nevertheless acquired a tourist visa and then permanent residency.

When it was understood who he was, this was revoked and Abdel Rahman applied for political asylum. He was allowed to remain while his application was being considered, in which time he guided his disciples who blew up the World Trade Center in 1993 and then plotted to blow up New York City landmarks in 1995; he now sits convicted in a US jail for the latter offence.

Hesham Mohamed Ali Hedayet - An Egyptian who entered the United States as a tourist in 1992, then applied for political asylum, claiming discrimination on account of his religious beliefs - shorthand for being an Islamist, indeed a member of the al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya ('the Islamic Group), a group engaged in terrorism since 1981 and listed in the US State Department's 1992 edition of 'Patterns of Global Terrorism'.

The immigration authorities ruled against his asylum application in March 1995 and formally began deportation procedures but Hedayet disappeared. In July 2002, Hedayet engaged in a shooting spree at the El Al (Israeli Airlines) counter at the Los Angeles International Airport, killing two before being shot dead himself.

The Council of American Islamic Relations (Cair) claims to be a group of concerned Americans dedicated to eliminating the Islamist terrorist threat to the US. But there were some members within who supported terror and were arrested.

Rafeeq Jaber, president, Islamic Association for Palestine, a Hamas offshoot.

Mahmoud A Nimer, member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa (an Islamic school used as a base of support for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad)

Ayman Osman member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa; employer of Hatem Fariz, arrested on terrorism charges and charged with being a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Abdurahman Alamoudi, 'a well-heeled advocate' who had represented American Muslims in White House meetings and was later arrested on terrorism-related charges.

But on the whole, the Muslims are better treated in the US than the non-Muslims in Malaysia where they suffer from 'religious apartheid'. The Muslims in the US have a better deal, than anywhere else on the planet. That is a fact.