AHMED Raza insists on referring to British and American troops as "Crusaders".

This is a hideous insult to Protestants, Jews and Muslims serving in those forces to compare them to those Medieval Catholic anti-Semitic self-serving terrorists.

It would be exactly equivalent for me to refer to all Muslims as terrorists - or, given the inaccuracy of Mr Raza's comparison, all Muslims as Ba'athists.

MATTHEW A CLARKE,

Hallow, Worcester.