There’s an interesting piece over that the Arabic-language Misbah Al-Hurriyah (Lamp of Freedom) website that suggests parallels between what happened in England during the 18th-19th C and what is going on in today’s Islamic world. The author, Mohammed D’ami, finds that reformists are basing their arguments on those of John Stuart Mill while the conservatives are basing theirs on Matthew Arnold. He doesn’t think there’s any way to find a middle ground between them, either.