Appeasement brings increasement--my own invention.
Turkey is the closest thing to a democritized Islamic state, and it still is not a place I would live. They forbid hijab in public schools and do not allow women who work (women do work in Turkey) in gov buildings to wear hijab while working.
They know well that the moment the women go veiled, that women will be *forced* to be veiled. Hoodlums in European neighborhoods assault women who are not veiled--if "critical mass" is reached in numbers of veiled women, it starts.
But, in the interest of cultural diversity, I think all schools should teach the Koran and some of the sayings of Mohammed--acutely boring, but highly enlightening. I've read them myself, and the more I read, the worse it got. One should particularly be aware that Mohammed said that when two verses of the Koran seem contradictory--take the latter verse. All the peaceful notions are in the front of the Koran.
They scare *me*--