After all the recent unspeakably barbaric and cruel beheadings of innocent people, the severed head of kidnapped American engineer Paul Johnson found in a terrorist’s refrigerator, as well as the slaughter of 3,000 civilians on Sept. 11 and other unimaginable crimes by homicidal, suicide bombers perpetrated against Americans, Israelis and their allies, we are still waiting to see the massive street demonstrations of highly agitated Muslims and passionate sermons by clerics in the mosques of the Muslim world against these abominations committed by “holy warriors” in the name of Islam.

We are expecting protest actions that cannot be missed by anyone, not isolated statements of “outrage” on obscure Internet sites or “disapproving” remarks by a few Muslim officials in Washington or elsewhere.

As for the remark of Diana Cundy of Paris (July 9) in her response to my letter of June 24 that “the situation is far more complex than Mr. Kuck suggests,” I would like to say this: Today’s threat of Islamist totalitarianism is as “complex” as was the situation we had to face in our fight for survival against the twin menace of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialism and international Communism during and after World War II.

A glimmer of hope can be seen by the attitude and actions of the new government of liberated Iraq against the highjackers of the Muslim religion and the enemies of freedom and democracy in their new country.

This is what World War III is all about.

Dr. Klaus D. Kuck, Lewiston

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