I was over at Paper Clippings Blog and they pointed me to a very interesting article by Spengler who writes for Asia Times. It's about humor, but it hits on the edges of what Islam is all about in respect to what Christianity and Judaism are all about. In light of the very interesting presentation at the GS Vacation this weekend, I was struck by the this paragraph in particular:
It is a striking difference between Islam on one hand, and Judaism and Christianity on the other, that Islam offers the promise of success as the reward for submission to God, while the older religions offer no greater consolation than God's own presence. It is God's presence itself before Job that provides the answer to Job's question... By the same token, Muslim unhappiness is not "about" the Israeli presence on the West Bank, or even the intrusion of Western secular values. It is about the Muslim perception that Islam's promise of success against its enemies has eluded them. It is a crisis of faith.
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