No more rape please.

These people need to take Religion 151 and learn it from a historical, scientific standpoint.

I went to Egypt a few years ago and met a boy a little younger about 18. He was a camel-herder and son of a tour-guide; probably upper-middle class for their area. He called me a "person of the book" even though I told him I don't go to church at all. He asked me what they teach us about Islam in American schools. He asked if they teach us that Islam is evil. Everything he had ever learned his whole life was from a single mosque from a few individuals.

Of course I replied that we are free to study what ever we want. I wasn't able to express the concept of freedom to him, he just didn't understand no matter what I said.

He invited me into his home and was very polite and made nice conversation, yet I was afraid. He had an attitude of superiority when he told me, "it's ok, it's not your fault." I got chills when he said that. I was a "person of the book" and according to him I had strayed from the path. I was half expecting his religious leader to pop out from the bushes and start preaching to me (or beating me with a stick). That was a different kind of fear I would never be exposed to at home.

Anyway long story blah blah... I agree it is going to take everyone's patience, education, and money.