Here via the London Times is a horrific story that highlights, once again, the nature of the challenge that the West faces – and yet seems pathetically unwilling to identify for what it is:
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SHAIMA REZAYEE was the face of a new generation of young Afghan women: she discarded her shalwar kameez and burkha for Western clothes and a glamorous job as a television presenter on Kabul’s answer to MTV.
But two months ago her bosses were forced to dismiss Ms Rezayee, 24, under pressure from conservative mullahs who were disgusted by the “unIslamic values” of her music show. This week she paid for her unconventional choices with her life: she was shot dead in her home by an unknown assailant. ”
Roughly half of the population of the Muslim world is under the age of 25. It’s time for the West to spend a little less time appeasing all the clerics, all the mullahs, and all the other aged, benighted irreconcilables and a little more time on helping their young win some of the freedom to which they ought to become entitled.