Nepal, March 28 -- Even as Nepal was embroiled in a controversy about equal citizenship rights for its women, on the world stage the Christchurch massacre of Muslims during Friday prayers at two mosques by a white supremacist terrorist shook the world. As dastardly as the violence against New Zealand's Muslims was, its Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's response to the massacre came as a light at the end of the Western democracies' dark tunnel about dealing with minorities.

The massacre took the lives of 50 men, women and children and injured dozens of others. But the prime minister mobilised her people in this small island nation of 5 million people. She reached out to its Muslim minority by empathising with the victims, their families and...