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It is interesting to note...
...that Islam is roughly at the same point in its existence now as was Christianity during the Reformation and all its attendant bloodshed. What will become of Islam as we go forward we can only guess at - it remains to be seen, and the factional lines are right now barely apparent to most westerners.
One thing that ought to concern everyone now, though, is that the stakes are drastically higher than during the Reformation. Humanity did not then as a species have at its disposal the means to come close to self-extermination.
Perhaps the question is, properly, whether there is a greater supply of wisdom at large in the world.