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YOURS SINCERELY

An irritated American sticks it to The Independent. Nice one:

"Sir: In their column of 29 November, 'Alexander the (not so) Great fails to conquer America's homophobes', John Hiscock and James Burleigh perpetuate the laughable and cartoonishly simplistic myth that has recently gained prominence among Europe's liberal media elites; namely, that the US is a land of snarling conservative bogeymen, burning homosexuals at the stake and chasing pious liberal martyrs out of their midwestern towns with pitchforks.

"As their damning evidence of this reign of terror, they produce one anonymous 'online critic' and then cite no source whatsoever to back up their assertion that Christians have been urged to speak to their pastors immediately because 'Satan is attempting to enter your mind.'

Your arrogant, European brand of deconstructionist liberalism has become so tiresome, so old, and so intellectually irrelevant, even non-religious 'blue state' voters like myself are voting against your ideology when it rears its ugly head in our own culture.

DAVID WALSH Montclair, New Jersey, USA"

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