While a bit on the extreme side, this LA Times op-ed still has many very valid points:

A cult of death is forming in the Muslim world — for reasons that are perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad. The truth is that we are not fighting a "war on terror." We are fighting a pestilential theology and a longing for paradise.
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Unfortunately, such religious extremism is not as fringe a phenomenon as we might hope. Numerous studies have found that the most radicalized Muslims tend to have better-than-average educations and economic opportunities.

And before you write the guy off as yet another right wing nut, be sure to read Instapundit's excerpts and, as he recommends, the whole thing.

It took Europe two paroxysms of literally unbelievable violence, death, and destruction before they were willing to accept the solutions that would break them out of their downward spirals. I would very much rather the Middle East not have to go through all of that to integrate them safely into the modern world.

Unfortunately I very much fear that far too many in the region are taking our unwillingness to unleash such destruction as a sign of our inability to do so. This is quite simply not the case, and anyone who ignores this does so at their, and their fellow's, peril.