Mr. Iftikhar Ahmed envies American Christians and sees the Afghan-style oppression of women as the solution to teenage pregnancy: he proposes burkas and sexual apartheid in British schools. He suggests that if we segregate girls, we would have no STD, no teenage pregnancies and stable families.

Like all other religionists and fanatics, Mr. Ahmed either himself lacks intelligence  or refuses to use it. Do we have regular and systematic surveys and statistics on STD, teenage pregnancy and divorce rate in Afghanistan, Iran and other Islam stricken societies? No, of course not. Instead, how many times have we heard about depression, self immolation, suicide and honour killings, and of girls and young women escaping from home and the brutal violence used against them?

Mr. Ahmed intends to sell the products of a closed, corrupt Islamic society such as Afghanistan to the people - and particularly the youth - in the West. You want to get rid of STD and teenage pregnancy? Lock up your girls, wear burka, hijab and jilbaba!  Let women suffer lifelong sexual oppression while the men follow the example of the Prophet Mohammed and the army of ayatollahs: innumerable sexual relationships, as many as they wish!  This is Islamic morality.

But what about the real problems of teenage pregnancies and STDs?

We should educate the youth. We must provide proper sex education and provide free, safe and reliable contraceptives. We should give young girls more control over their lives and more choices. As experience from Holland has shown, this is the only humane and effective way to reduce unwanted pregnancies, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases. 

Islam and Christianity with their chastity rings and burkas belong to the dark past, and in the name of human dignity and women’s autonomy must be rejected. 

Burka, Hijab and Jilbab are nothing but the sick dreams of a fanatic Islamist.