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Jeff Harrell, who I started reading for his hilarious Survivor summaries, has a very clever analysis of this Tom Friedman piece. I have often said that I think Islam needs a reformation, but Jeff explains the condition of Islam as it relates to Christianity and modernity better than I ever have:

I think Islam is a fundamentally adolescent religion. Islam is today where Christianity was eight hundred years ago, during the height of the Crusades and the Inquisitions. But where misguided Christian zealots had swords, misguided Muslim zealots have bombs.