Is the Muslim world waking up to its own violent nature?

Blogger Micah Halpern notes with some satisfaction that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Hamas spokesman Dr. Ghazi Hamad have issued very critical statements about Islam's dependence on violence in the last couple of weeks. He attributes Islam's violent nature to its 'unity uber alles,' its inability to admit mistakes. One of my biggest and most often repeated critiques of the Arab world is