21 AUGUST 1982, page 18

Islamic Values

Sir: Richard West pokes fun, in his article 'No third world feminists' (7 August), at Western feminists with 'their crackpot ideologies' by drawing comparisons with the......

Propaganda By Deed

Sir: Patrick Desmond (14 August) says that Menachem Begin is 'a terrorist' in 'the classic European sense of one who believes in "the propaganda of the deed" '. This is a common......

Letters

Waiting for Ullsten Sir: Andrew Brown, in his report 'The Assyrians in Sweden' (7 August), suggests that Swedes believe the English to be `quarrelsome, bone-idle and......

Sausage, Egg, Crumpet

Sir: As a New Yorker who constantly yearns for all American meals, I was pleas- ed that our breakfasts found favour with Simon Courtauld (Notebook, 7 August). 1 think it only......

Sir: Richard West (`no Third World Feminists', 7 August) May

well be right that pampered Western feminists are naive and imperialist when they try to foist their views on the third world. But isn't he being a little pampered himself when......

In The Name Of Sport

Sir: Richard Course is quite right (Letters , 14 August). Certain myths surrounding fox- hunting should be exposed. May we start, with the one propounded by his League. That is......