Save the Planet
By Sohail Husain
Yale University, School of Medicine

Dear Editor: Among several reasons cited in favor of educating women in "How Women Can Save the Planet," Lawrence Krauss correctly states that educated women "are less likely to accept fundamentalist extremism." I believe that it is especially important for Muslim groups such as the Taliban to know that the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, 1400 hundred years ago told his followers that they could earn paradise by educating their daughters. Could we all not come closer to a more peaceful society, a paradise on earth, by rediscovering the wisdom of educating the women of our planet?