I would like to offer my unreserved apology to Fazzur Rahman (Letters, Dec. 21), and my thanks to him for having pointed out an unintended verbal error in my article “ >Looming clouds of destruction ” (Dec. 19) that must have offended many other readers as well. The sentence should have read “… in what they believe to be the approved … etc.”
There is an approved way of killing an animal for food — halal among Muslims and Kosher among Jews. But neither religion even remotely suggests that there is any approved way of killing a fellow human being. My choice of phrase was intended to reflect my own anger at this gross perversion of an innocent practice, followed for sound health reasons, in several religions.
Prem Shankar Jha , New Delhi
