Three Optimists look to Islam’s future

Matthew J. Franck

At Public Discourse this week, an interesting trifecta: in Monday’s installment, Michael Novak, in “Religious Liberty and the Development of Doctrine in Islam,” predicts:

By the year 2020, rough and painful human experience will lead the Islamic nations of the Mediterranean Basin to resound with positive cries for democracy, human rights, individual liberty, and the dignity of every man, woman, and child. By 2020, Islamic peoples will be crying out publicly in favor of regimes that allow men and women to act from reflection and choice, and to live as peoples who are free and responsible, and who are eager to show initiative and unprecedented creativity.

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/07/01/three-optimists-look-to-islams-future/