These people want education. They want clean water, better health care, better farming techniques, better roads to get their crops to market. To say that they should be left alone to live as they have for thousand of years is a form of racism in my opinion.
Alice is right. What Greg Mortenson's group is doing in the Mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan has meant significant improvement in the lives of the people who live there, so much so that tribemen from remote villages seek him out requesting that schools be built there. These same people protect these schools from attack, because they value them.
I am not saying that these people will not continue to live their lives in accordance with Islamic Law...that will not change. But these schools, which improve the