I’m reminded of a passage in Mark Steyn’s book where he talks about how we can win this struggle we’re in. We must Reform Islam, he says — which non-Muslims can’t really do but “all the free world” can “create conditions that increase the likelihood of Muslim reform, or at any rate do not actively impede it.”

And Mark is all about the chicks. On the top of his list of what we should be doing, he’s got women. He writes:

Support women’s rights—real rights, not feminist pieties – in the Muslim world. This is the biggest vulnerability in Islam. Not every Muslim female wants to be Gloria Steinem or Paris Hilton. But nor do they want a life that starts with genital mutilation and ends with an honor killing at the hands of your brothers. The overwhelming majority of females in Continental battered women’s shelters are Muslim – which gives you some sense of what women in the Middle East might do if they had any women’s shelters to go to. When half the population of these societies is a potential source of dissent, we need to use it.