I’ve read that a lot on conservative blogs since 9/11. I wonder how telling a point it really is. Submission to God–in the sense of having a duty to align one’s will with His, to the extent it can be determined–isn’t exactly foreign to Christianity or Judaism, is it? People often bring up the fact (if it is a fact) that “Islam means submission” in response to claims that “Islam means peace.” But again, the notion that obedience to God’s will is true peace hardly unique to Islam.