[Armistead]

I think the future will be tricky, religious test, freedom of speech, etc., vs. security. That old saying "he that gives up liberty for security deserves neither" .... but to abide by that, it means you go to war and destroy your enemy, not so easy with a world religion.

I've watched numerous sermons by many so called moderate clerics in the US on youtube, debates and speeches, you start getting a feeling there's more a political religious movement going on to change systems and culture with a nod and a wink, what the radicals are doing is OK... leading the way. Sure it's not true with many, but obvious it's a tight religious group. If you start religious test, then there's the slippery constitutional slope, many liberal groups would love to ban so called hate speech spouted off in Christian churches.

Obvious the big problem is inner conflict between Islam itself, the numerous sects, Shiites vs Sunni, all the war and conflict leaves so many vacuums that create terrorist movements and we often get drug into the conflict. Another thing is obvious, Islam is often the religion of punks and thugs.

Other religions reformed, while many are hateful bigots, Islam is different. In a modern world with WMDs, I'm not sure we have 500 years waiting for it to reform, maybe not even a decade.....