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Prior to the Iranian Islamic revolution there was slow steady westernization. You can still find on the Internet pictures of coed education in Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Pictures of university life both in Tehran and Afghanistan. Young men and women mixing together. Dressed in European styles of the 1960s/1970s perhaps a little modestly worn compared to Europeans but proudly openly worn. There's even a picture of the Bin Ladin family including OBL skiing in Switzerland. They look like a swarthy Osmond family. You can pretend that didn't happen if you wish but it did. The Carter administration allowed the extremist victory then combine that with European cowardice and western suicidal empathy and you have continual victories until maybe now. UBL told us in one of his videos the key to their mind - they admire and follow the “strong horse”. What did we and Europe do? Not act like the “strong horse” but the “My Little Pony”. However that's what our overly feminized empathy at all costs cultural attitude gets us. The solution is not bring them here or Europe just put pressure on them when justified. Let them go their own way. Continued barbaric behavior will keep them poor and pathetic. That will sink in their minds again. You're not going to get rid of Islam unless you want to massacre a billion plus people. Just let it evolve toward something sane like it was doing prior to the rise of fundamentalism. It was doing that, our moronic policies (All cultures are equal!) opened the fundamentalist Pandora's Box.