The culture of the people is why these heinous acts occur. The religion becomes the word to hide behind and offers it acceptance. The only way it will go away is if the customs change. These people have isolated and cut themselves off from the Western world, so the odds of that occurring are slim to none. The war hasn't and won't change anything.
The Western world changed dramatically since the days of the Inquisitors roaming around judging and torturing women with a copy of the Malleus Maleficarum as their morally righteous and religiously accepted guideline. Christian society's interpret the bible much differently today, as was pointed out, than they did 600 years ago. Our culture changed, became more civilized, less barbaric, though if it could be gotten away with legally I'd hate to see how far some of these religious zealots today would go.
There are always those that want out of a culture and will get away. I have a neighbor who's one. Perhaps the military presence has given the strength to some of those that otherwise wouldn't have left, to leave, good for them. I'm sure however that most women of Islam are very happy and content. It's a part of them, their custom, their culture. They live by the guidelines of the Koran as Christian women do the commandments of the Bible. They live in their happy corner of the world and what happens in it is their business. If you don't want to see the instances of barbarism don't look.
Their culture has existed throughout the centuries without any need for the good judgement of the Western world and they certainly aren't asking for it now. It's not too dissimilar from the Amish, only they get a no-strings attached opportunity to walk away. Oddly enough almost all of them go back, yet none of the people who read this board would consider that lifestyle for a millisecond. It doesn't make any sense in our world and we wouldn't want any part of it. We would question these people endlessly about why, yet they're very content, perhaps more so than us educated, civilized folk.
It's an unfortunate, isolated incident and if she looked anything like my neighbor, Paul should've just taken himself a little Muslim chicka back to the Island