Just as Christianity did several hundred years ago, Islam starts pulling itself out of the dark ages. One country down, several to go. But then Bahrain was already the local place Muslims in the Gulf go to when they want to come into the modern world.
Yes, I applaud Bahrian in its move to democracy.
There are several good articles on this topic out of Lebannon which called it the wave of the future, but for some reason FR's website wouldn't let the articles post even after several tries.