By Giancarlo BosettiToday Fatema Mernissi asks young Muslims not to blindly follow the rules of traditionalists and literalists, and is confident that there will be a revival of critical thought, fuelled by the web’s technological revolution and by 500 Arab TV satellite channels. Her faith in young Muslims has also found a voice during these years on the pages of our Italian magazine Reset. Mernissi envisaged the nature of a political evolution not remotely Islamist, in which the political propaganda of many regimes in power would no longer enchant young people interested in consumption, wellbeing, work, and music, long before the modern protests began to make this dream a reality.