cnpp: You really have to wonder how progressives in the West have been able to embrace what amounts to medievalism. In the West, we've experienced the Reformation and the Enlightenment and slowly but surely have unburdened ourselves of religionism. Perhaps a humanist form of Islam will emerge in the West, which would render the religion compatible with the other monotheistic faiths but in the meantime we must assert the primacy of Western values within our societies.