Hardly called for. This critical (incl self-critical), rationalizing, demythologizing bent of Judaism and Christianity is a good thing, and an important part of what has made them reformist religions, ultimately contributing crucially to the development of Western Civilization and the preservation of its key values. This is what we want to also be occuring within Islam. Or would you prefer that conservative Judaism was more like conservative Islam?
If I thought this war was about imposing the NYT-approved secularist banalities upon the Islamic world, I'd be out fomenting rebellion and inciting desertion.