Editor:
Re: Past terrorist allegations shouldn’t deter aid: MP, Dec. 16.
As author Gerald Seymour first wrote in his 1975 novel, Harry’s Game, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
This should get kept in mind when trying to label groups fighting oppressive regimes, such as the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran.
Remember that Israel’s Menachem Begin and South Africa’s Nelson Mandela were classified as terrorists by the countries that they eventually went on to lead, with both winning the Nobel Peace Prize; Begin in 1978 and Mandela in 1993.
Don Pitcairn, Surrey
