Gov. Deal should worry about legacy
Gov. Nathan Deal is right to be concerned about his legacy as governor of Georgia. It consists of trying to keep thousands of Georgians from getting healthcare, attacking Syrian refugees seeking to resettle here, getting a dirt road to his house paved on our dime, and coming into office nearly bankrupt but leaving a millionaire. We deserved better.
BRUCE WHITE, TUCKER
Questions for mainline Muslims
Jim Galloway’s column “On how to keep your kids away from Isis” (Metro, Jan. 1) was encouraging. It is good that a recent anti-ISIS seminar was focused on how to keep Muslim children from being influenced by ISIS propaganda intended to radicalize. Indeed, ISIS is the enemy of mainline Islam and to much of the world.
However sincere the Muslims attending this seminar seem, I have three questions: (1) Do you teach your children that Jews/Israel are not an enemy to be hated and destroyed? (2) Since there are over 60 officially Islamic countries, none of which tolerates Christians or, God forbid, Jews, why should Americans, after viewing an increasingly militant Islamic population in European countries, believe American Muslims would be any different if your population grows? (3) Would you forever reject Shariah Law, which incidentally is mostly incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, U.S. law and U.S. customs? ( Keeping your women in the back of your meeting room may be your custom, but shows an unwillingness to abide by American practices.)4
I realize that Jim Galloway was a non-speaking guest at this seminar, but perhaps he will revisit one of these gatherings and ask these very pointed questions. We really need to know the answers to these questions. And we do not need for Galloway to infer that Muslims are like Baptists.
ERNEST WADE, LOGANVILLE
Keep after changes in brewery laws
The Kyle Wingfield “Alcohol Laws Need Major Reform” (Opinion, Jan. 3) assessment perfectly captured an example of how money and influence corrupts the political process, creates a tilted playing field and prevents business growth and job creation. The beer wholesalers and their accommodating political allies have created an absurd obstacle to progress for an emerging small business sector of small breweries. I only hope the AJC continues to bring sunshine to this, and that the Gold Dome will finally show some political courage and independence.
PATRICK LYNCH, ALPHARETTA
