Quoting Nicholas D. Kristof

Relooking the Quran: sign of an awakening? - AUG 6, 2004: "But Muslim fundamentalists regard the Quran - every word of it - as God's own language and have violently attacked free-thinking scholars as heretics. So Muslim intellectuals have been intimidated and Islam has often been transmitted by narrow-minded extremists.

(This problem is not confined to Islam. On my blog, www.nytimes.com/ kristofresponds, I've been battling with fans of the Christian fundamentalist Left Behind series. Some are eager to see me left behind.)"

That last line just tickled me!