Dear Editor:

There are 1.6 billion Muslims — 25 percent of the world’s population. Today’s terrorist barbarians don’t make up even a small fraction of one percent of all Muslims. Each day these terrorists kill hundreds from their own religion.

The only solution to stopping these atrocities is to join together with the overwhelming number of decent Muslims in this world, who want to end it much more than we do.

The primary goal of ISIS is to expand their own self-declared religious war throughout the world. It would be a huge victory for them to get the U.S. to implement laws based solely on a person’s religion. It would destroy much of what this nation stands for.

John Pankowicz

Boothbay Harbor