Liberal Islam, the legend continues.... Here is an article in The New Republic on a liberal Muslim intellectual at UCLA who is receiving death threats and little press in the Islamic world. Nothing too groundbreaking. I would like to add though that it is a well known tendency for Muslims to come to the United States, and become MORE religious and observant. This follows the tradition of many immigrant groups though, European Jews for instance are a classic example where they often got religion and joined Reform Temples where in the old country the only two choices were Orthodoxy and Secularism. The only difference is that the religion in the case of Muslims is a stricter and less flexible version of Islam than they often started out with-local traditions tend to not take root in the United States, while the more universal Wahabbi influenced fundamentalism is transnational.