I stumbled upon this very interesting article by Bernard Lewis:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199009/muslim-rageI know it's rather old, but I thought I'd share it in can some others hadn't seen it. I certainly hadn't read it before, but he brings up some really thoughtful points that I hadn't thought of before, such as why secularism arose in the West rather than in Muslim countries.
I put it in the "Religion and God" category, though if there was a "Religion and History" category, I would have put it there.