I have seen this happen in India, where I grew up. The rich, colourful, pluralistic and easy-going Islam of my youth has turned into a dour, puritanical faith, policed by petty theocrats and religious commissars.This is the best article on the Fundamentalist Muslim problem I have read yet. Excellent post, and thanks!If Muslims do not take it upon themselves to stop their religion from falling prey to medievalists, nothing any outsider can do will save them.
We need to agressively mount a counter-campaign of Islamic moderation, or, as the article points out, even moderate Moslems will be afraid to speak up.