Eventually, the Syrian people will elect new leaders. If these leaders choose the path of retribution and tyranny, then they will follow the path Assad is on. But they should at least be given the opportunity to prove themselves. We can only hope that they learn from history.

Democracy is about the right to choose. Turkey is at a critical cusp, and I cannot help feeling that, with the proliferation of young women like these, the future of Turkey's democracy is in good hands.

While there are a large number of Muslim-majority countries that are not democracies, the majority of the world's Muslims live in democracies. Given that, why do so many authors paint the Muslim world as undemocratic?