IF Redditch Council seeks to name a street after a Pakistani leader (Advertiser, June 12) there are better choices than Qaid-e-Azam MA Jinnah.
In modern parlance, he was a racist and a zealot.
The speech he made as leader of the Muslim League of India in 1947 leaves little doubt as to his opinions.
He no doubt was a great Pakistani nationalist and was indeed an Islamic scholar, but he is not a good example of how to fashion a multi-ethnic Redditch.
The council should choose a more appropriate role model.
Peter Bolt
Feckenham Road
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