It doesn't matter if a culture that considers it better to burn a teacher alive than to let her instruct girls in reading and writing is wanting things to be like they were centuries ago, or if they simply want illiterate girls for the sake of keeping them illiterate. It doesn't matter. What matters is that they're acting to make it so.

In the near-term, you are probably correct.
In the long-term, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

...trains the immune system to kill cells which look like they have ebola.

So, the solution to Ebola involves profiling? Geez. /s