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SIR – Criticism of a religion should not be construed as racism. Did Lee Anderson MP make negative comments about people of a certain ethnicity (report, February 26)? No, he did not. So why do people like Anneliese Dodds, the Labour Party chairman, accuse him of racism, when they know perfectly well that he was speaking about Islamists, who come from many different racial backgrounds? Would criticism of Christianity be construed as racism? Of course not. These people, and many others, are simply ....