SCENARIO: You are reading a local newspaper and come upon a Letter to the Editor, from a Kansas City resident, in which the following assertions is made:
“Islam and democracy are necessarily incompatible.”
Imagine that the assertion especially moves you to write your own Letter to the Editor, responding to the assertion.
OPTIONS: Write your essay as if it were your letter responding to one of the foregoing assertions, clearly identifying at the outset of your essay the assertion to which you are responding.