Sister Amy reflects on the efforts of the West to reform Islam, the double-standards surrounding democracy and some of the conflicts around the world, and her simple reasons for becoming a Muslim.

In the world of ignorance, tolerance and respectability lose way against the instinct to survive. That, I think, is what you see in such “war-torn” parts of the Muslim world. How can ‘democracy’ have a hope in an uneducated society? Even in this country, it was incumbent upon citizens to educate themselves, but education assumed… it was necessary for the concept to work.