You can lead a horse to water... let's talk about Pakistan, and the woman currently facing the death penalty for the crime of drinking from the Muslim-only water pot and "blaspheming" (of course her word is meaningless compared to that of her accusers), or should we talk about the poor girl who was burned alive by her mother and brother last week for eloping without their blessing. Or we can talk about Bangladesh, where Islamists have led a reign of terror against secular writers and poets for "blaspheming", one could argue that a country where poets are hacked to death with machetes by rabid zealots is hardly a beacon of progressive equality but Bangladesh and Pakistan have always suffered from the scourge of Islamism since independence and recent attacks against secular figures in both countries give little reason for optimism. The scourge of Islamism (Islamic laws governing all aspects of society) end in regression, with Turkey only the most recent casualty.