I think we should also look carefully at what we mean by ‘traditional’ Muslim societies. If we are trying to understand what has disturbed the established religious order (and there are many causes), we should certainly also be looking at the impact of Saudi-financed Wahhabism on the diverse, and usually less militant, Islams that had previously developed across the globe whether in Indonesia, say, or amongst the Muslim communities of Europe, or elsewhere. I suspect that when we do, we will find out that Saudi money played much more of a role in elbowing out more moderate Islam than Western ideas of sexual equality or, for that matter, the fact that same sex civil unions are allowed in Vermont.