I would say education, education, education. You need some good coverage out there, not just American films, to get into the Egyptian media. You need more than that to educate the people. The majority of the women out there are uneducated, so you're dealing with uneducated masses that get moved or suppressed by the mullahs and the other extremists. They embed that in their minds from a very young age, and they veil them when they are three and four years old, and they embed in their minds that they have to do certain things that we consider extreme, simply because they are Muslims.
I am sure that my good Muslim friends will disagree with these measures. These are extreme measures and they have nothing to do with Islam. These are local cultures. We need to educate these people. We're not asking for troops. We're not asking for money. Send more material to educate women and young women. Through the media and through other friendly channels like this, you bring their awareness up.
It used to be a joke, and now it's not a joke any more, that the two unveiled women in Egypt are the anchorwoman on TV and Mrs. Mubarak, but by golly, you go out there and you'll see every woman in Egypt is veiled. Why? A few years back, two or three decades ago, they were not veiled, nobody was veiled. These ideals and ideologies are coming from foreign areas like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and others, and they really have nothing to do with Islam. We had Muslim friends all along. They were never veiled. When I was young they were never veiled.
We have to educate the masses, but you can hardly see credible media in Egypt or the Middle East to believe any more. So I would say that education is number one.
Thank you.