Marrying Mohammed Atta.

• Position: Letters

Charles Peters asks how to reduce the unusually high percentage of (terror-prone) young, single males in Islamic countries ("Tilting at Windmills," December 2001). I suspect that the elimination of polygamy would likely help increase the number of available women and, hence, increase the marriage rate.

STEVE LANSET Hoboken, N.J. Peters is indeed tilting at windmills when he recommends tackling the problem of "large numbers of young, single males" in Islamic...