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I was unpleasantly surprised to see the normally sagacious Molly Ivins branding Tom DeLay and his Texan confreres as "Shiite Republicans," meaning (according to Ivins) "they don't compromise, they don't deal, they don't look for the middle way" ["Tales of the Texas Border," June 9]. While DeLay deserves all manner of epithets, Ivins's word choice, however humorous in intent, reproduces the false equation in our media ether between "Shiite" and "fundamentalist" or "extremist."
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