Its lame to group all 'religion' together. i won't defend all religions because they are not all equal. Rather, grouping them together is intellectually lazy and shows dismissive arrogance.

This topic is about Islam and the Muslim attempts in France to uphold Islamic social standards within licentious French social environment.

But lazy intellectual snobbery borne of prideful arrogance and narcissism tries to paint this as 'us' vs. them.

Saletan seems so insular as to percieve American sociological conditions to be representative of universal human evolution, and all those who are not following American 'standards' are therefore 'less evolved'.