Ah, Eyal, yes there is gene therapy. Expensive, bioethically questionable to some, and don't get me started on stem cell politics! :)

This IS in our hands. And we have people to look up to in our journey: 

Some of the greatest agents of change have worked for social justice by challenging the status quo within their own communities. From Gandhi (who said that to replace a white oligarchy with a brown one was not progress because, well, it's still an oligarchy) to contemporaries like Deeyah, Agents of Moral Courage get that dissent within one's OWN community is the way to bring the kind of cure you mention.

It's easy to get defensive and trash the other side  - you know "your people" will stand up and cheer. Much harder and much more courageous it is to face the hard truths about our own communities -- and to risk unpopularity by dissenting. Just as Roi has done.

Roi has already been smeared by some of his fellow faithful. The words against him are juvenile, but par for the course when it comes to making real change; not to mention symptomatic of a much larger problem. Thankfully, Roi is not deterred by this counterproductive tribalism.

I'd dare say that the deadlier than "terror" is complacency. If we can't recognize that the violence our own communities perpetrate is unconditionally unacceptable, we might as well be throwing the rocks (or much worse) ourselves. It's enabling.

Check it out - Roi's been called an Agent of Moral Courage by none other than Irshad Manji! The story is here. Looks like Roi won't be silenced any time soon.

Congratulations, Roi. Keep the moral courage coming. As a faithful Muslim, I'm inspired by you, an Israeli.