At a Theater Near You ... - New York Times

At a Theater Near You ... - New York Times:

This is a great read from Friedman. In summary, the breast-beating leftists among us must come to accept that it isn't our fault tha tthe Islamists have this cult of death -- it is the fault of the Islamic belief system and their failure to adapt to the modern world. They have to solve this problem before their whole culture is contaminated. Read every word of this article, but the following quote gets at the nub of it:

"Two trends are at work here: humiliation and atomization. Islam's self-identity is that it is the most perfect and complete expression of God's monotheistic message, and the Koran is God's last and most perfect word. To put it another way, young Muslims are raised on the view that Islam is God 3.0. Christianity is God 2.0. Judaism is God 1.0. And Hinduism and all others are God 0.0. One of the factors driving Muslim males, particularly educated ones, into these acts of extreme, expressive violence is that while they were taught that they have the most perfect and complete operating system, every day they are confronted with the reality that people living by God 2.0., God 1.0 and God 0.0 are generally living much more prosperously, powerfully and democratically than those living under Islam. This creates a real dissonance and humiliation. How could this be? Who did this to us? The Crusaders! The Jews! The West! It can never be something that they failed to learn, adapt to or build. This humiliation produces a lashing out."