NATIONAL media reports and scenes shown on all TV stations indicate increasing hostility towards their own governments' support for the US actions in Afghanistan.

It also appears by Sajid Riasat's indignation (You Say, October 6) on the same subject that feelings in the Asian community also run mainly against the action by the US.

There will always be a divide between Muslim and Christian and any other religion.

All these different beliefs, usually categorised by country, live within the edicts of that country and the religion inherent within its boundaries.

Luckily for Sajid Riasat, he and his countrymen and women have been accepted into this very tolerant kingdom. The USA itself has opened its arms to peoples from all parts of world whatever their religion or creed.

I feel Sajid Riasat would be hard-put to find any Muslim-dominated country willing to accept a Christian readily as a permanent resident on the same terms. Least of all three of those he mentioned as being ostracised by the USA, namely Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. There are, for instance, many mosques, synagogues or other places of worship in this country and America. But I would defy Sajid Riasat to try to erect a church inside Afghanistan, or Iraq or indeed many Muslim-dominated countries.

While most will agree that the USA does not always endear itself to everybody, without its presence in the last century, I doubt if Sajid Riasat or the rest of us would be here today.

R W BROWN,

Malvern.