I would like to congratulate Mr. Comelab on his interesting column in the August 2009 issue. My only comment is that in giving reasons to fight the UN resolution against defamation of religion he misses to mention examples of other religions (e.g.Vatican) that, on occasion, united with OIC in approving this resolution.

Elio Peneasy

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It is very kind of Prof Jayanti Patel, the prominent Radical Humanist of Gujarat who gave me the valuable gift of IHN. Being an ex-untouchable dalit poet the issue of August 2009 reporting on World Conference on Untouchability brought me a lot of new information about my co-sufferers in Africa, Bangladesh, Japan and many other countries.

Kindly do publish my appreciation for these writers – Matt Cherry, Lord Avebury, Jamil Iqbal, Leo Igwe, Sam Ayache and V B Rawat for their poignant contribution and effort to raise global awareness regarding this heinous human rights violation.

Neerav Patel
India