Is it even worth trying to make the Middle East accommodating to cosmopolitan/liberal values? I just don't think those areas are suitable for democracy, let alone the "Western values" as bedstuy is describing them. I sympathize with them; they believe firmly in the Qur'an as the way to salvation and the word of God, just as I view the Bible as God's word; I happen to believe they were deceived and chose the wrong way, but it's not surprising to see how things ended up the way they did. I just don't see that changing at all anytime soon.
Lol ok,....
