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Islam will win
By Bradley Burston
Tags: Islam, Terrorism, Al-Qaida

In Iraq, in Iran, within the Palestinian community and around the world, jihadists are being reassessed for their excesses, for the direct and tragic harm suicide terrorism has caused Islam, Islamic shrines and noncombatants of all faiths

An ill wind is blowing for jihadists. It is the wind of reason. It is the wind of human conscience. It is the wind of true Islam. And it is bad news for the terrorists.

On Wednesday, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appeared in a videotape vowing revenge for the U.S. killing of a top Al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan. It was not the killing per se which augered poorly for jihadists, but the specific language of al-Zawahiri's threats. Seated next to an assault rifle and backed by a library full of Islamic books, al-Zawahiri chose to speak to a growing chorus of Muslim clerics who have openly criticized jihadists as acting contrary to the teachings of Islam.
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"So seek help, O Americans and agents of Americans, from those seeking a way out," he intoned, referring to the anti-jihadist clergy. "They will be of no help to you."

As Iran prepares to celebrate the 30th anniversary next year of the revolution led by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the world of jihad is fraying at many points and, in the worst symptom of any revolution, beginning to show its age.

The same day the Al-Qaida video appeared, senior Iranian cleric Hassan Rowhani strongly criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his verbal assaults against Israel, asking: "Does foreign policy mean expressing coarse slogans and grandstanding?"

The day before, an exhaustive Gallup poll of the world's Muslims showed that 93 percent of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are moderates, and only seven percent are political radicals who condone the September 11 attacks and other subsequent terrorist operations.

And the day before that, the Darul-Uloom Deoband Muslim seminary in India, seen as the most influential school for Islamic law in Asia, condemned terrorism as violating the teachings of Islam. Seminary head Maulana Marghoobur Rahman denounced terrorism as completely wrong and contrary to Islam's concept of peace. He was addressing a landmark conference on terrorism that was expected to explicitly ask the Muslim community to stay away from acts of terrorism and from organizations that promote violence in the name of religion.

From the dawn of this decade of terrorism, there has been a widely held belief that no matter how the West chose to combat armed Islamists, the extremists would only benefit.

Appease them, the reasoning went, and they will take advantage of any and all largess to expand their activities, exploiting a cocktail of democratic freedoms, Western post-imperial guilt and First World technology in order to further their aims, spread their message and kill again and again.

Make war on them, on the other hand, and you again play into their hands, as the ideology of martyrdom neutralizes all conventional notions of deterrence, numerical and material superiority, and even the very idea of victory.

You can't touch them, the theory held. Success makes them stronger. Pain and despair fuel their struggle. Fanaticism armors their faith. They can outlast you, they will out-populate you, they revel in your pursuit of comforts. They are hard-muscled where you are malleable, motivated where you are resigned, they cannot be bought off, they will stop at nothing and, for dessert, you pay their way every time you stop at the gasoline pump. Or so the theory went.

Maybe the theory was wrong.

If recent indications are any measure, we may be seeing a turning point in the fortunes of radical Islamist clergy-warlords and terrorist groups who cite Islam as their inspiration.

In Iraq, in Iran, within the Palestinian community and around the world, jihadists are being reassessed for their excesses, for the direct and tragic harm suicide terrorism has caused Islam, Islamic shrines and noncombatants of all faiths.

Where Islamists have succeeded in taking control of governments in the cases of the former Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and a confused, directionless Gaza - radicals have shown that they know how to topple governments, but have little clue how to run them.

If recent indications hold, Islamist terrorism as an ideological brushfire is dimming in its ability to galvanize and electrify.

If recent indications hold, Islam itself will be the winner
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  1.   LETS BLAME IT ALL TO MUSLIMS AND SIT TIGHT 12:09  |  indrajaya 29/02/08
  2.   MR. BURSTON ! WHO ARE YOU ? A SECRET MUSLIM ? A JEW ? A CHRISTIAN 12:33  |  ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU 29/02/08
  3.   life is dirty and short Mr. Burston. Islam is forever 13:01  |  be Muslim Sir 29/02/08
  4.   HAARETZ`S HEARTS MUCH CLOSE TO ISLAM THAN TODAYS JUDAISM 13:03  |  I FEEL IT 29/02/08
  5.   Why leave your own Zionists & Imperialists off the list? 13:32  |  Dutch 29/02/08
  6.   RADICALS OBEY THE KORAN AND HADITH ?? 13:39  |  Bill 29/02/08
  7.   Silly me, and I thought that jihad was an Islamic concept. 13:42  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 29/02/08
  8.   ISLAM WILL LOSE ?? 13:51  |  Bill 29/02/08
  9.   Bill # 6 14:35  |  Mohamed 29/02/08
  10.   to #6 Bill, I wonder what you benefit of repeating your lies 14:42  |  Zaki 29/02/08
  11.   Do the maths 15:09  |  Joe Shmo 29/02/08
  12.   "Radical Islam the Problem Moderate Islam the Solution" 15:12  |  Jane 29/02/08
  13.   I Think I Am A Jew, A Christian, A Buddhist, And A Muslim... 15:14  |  Yosemite 29/02/08
  14.   Burston,weak article,make a distinction between terrorism,state 16:00  |  lakshmi 29/02/08
  15.   Slowman, I am instructing you to stop working NOW! 16:01  |  Dr. Anshel Pepper 29/02/08
  16.   Islamic moderates are an endangered species 16:04  |  Jason 29/02/08
  17.   #5 doris cadigan and more convenient history 16:06  |  v hardman 29/02/08
  18.   Going deeper on the statistics... 16:17  |  Luis 29/02/08
  19.   Hey, Bill... 16:21  |  Boris S. 29/02/08
  20.   To Dutch 16:35  |  Armenian Genocide 29/02/08
  21.   going deeper on the statistics... 16:40  |  Luis 29/02/08
  22.   ATILLA on Bradley Burston 16:42  |  Mark B. 29/02/08
  23.   Bill - 6: they do not OBEY the KORAN... 16:55  |  Nihat 29/02/08
  24.   How Would a Jew Know What True Islam Is? 17:04  |  massaraksh 29/02/08
  25.   Mladen: You Should Read More Burston, Then You`d Know Everything! 17:08  |  massaraksh 29/02/08
  26.   Jason: Islamic Moderates Are Non-Existent Species 17:10  |  massaraksh 29/02/08
  27.   Bradley follows the Bush confusion 17:26  |  Tosefta 29/02/08
  28.   Mr.Burston *** A New Dawn Perhaps? 17:32  |  JOSH 29/02/08
  29.   If the number of todays Qassams rised Bradley is right! 17:36  |  Karl 29/02/08
  30.   The paranoid fantasies of those who scare themselves 17:41  |  Mark Lincoln 29/02/08
  31.   Who is the Abominable Slowman? 18:04  |  Bursting Bradley 29/02/08
  32.   Islamic strategy 18:40  |  Jean Van Daem 29/02/08
  33.   # 10 Tosefta...Turkish scholars are devoting 18:55  |  Lynn 29/02/08
  34.   To Mark London: How about if you look at some statistics? 19:08  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 29/02/08
  35.   #13, Mark Lincoln 19:10  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
  36.   30 years after Russian revolution was 1947 19:20  |  hardly the end 29/02/08
  37.   #11, JOSH 20:02  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
  38.   Confused Bush, the creator of the Jihadist scare 20:57  |  Tosefta 29/02/08
  39.   #13 BORIS S 21:12  |  Bill 29/02/08
  40.   # 30 Cipora..Well we can only hope.But! I`ll believe it when.. 21:26  |  JOSH 29/02/08
  41.   # 16 NIHAT 21:31  |  Bill 29/02/08
  42.   Mark Lincoln RE Israeli paranoia... 21:34  |  Dutch 29/02/08
  43.   # 26 Jean Van Daem.. Islamic strategy..But A Question 21:37  |  JOSH 29/02/08
  44.   Changes (Lynn #27) 21:44  |  Tosefta 29/02/08
  45.   I have a question 21:53  |  TAZ 29/02/08
  46.   But they don`t agree that terror is "terror" 22:24  |  McQueen 29/02/08
  47.   @ 8 Yeah Bradley, you are so wrong not having put Hamas in the 22:46  |  Karl 29/02/08
  48.   Moderates are product of Islam vagueness 22:53  |  Moises 29/02/08
  49.   Only 7% 23:11  |  dave 29/02/08
  50.   Darul-Uloom Deoband Muslim seminary in India 23:51  |  Karl 29/02/08
  51.   hOW FUNNY, un COMISSIONER JUST APPROVED palestinian terrorism 00:22  |  Massoud Levy 01/03/08
  52.   Mladen Andrijasevic - a few statistics 01:02  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  53.   Zionism is wrapping itself in barbed wire! 01:06  |  Maureen Ann 01/03/08
  54.   Cipora - You clearly don`t understand reality 01:10  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  55.   Lakshmi # 8 01:22  |  Avrum 01/03/08
  56.   ISLAM will WIN 01:29  |  Hasan 01/03/08
  57.   Gospozha Kohn 01:31  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  58.   Do the numbers 01:36  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  59.   #41, Mark Lincoln 01:42  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/03/08
  60.   BRADLEY BURSTON = LATE ROBERT GUEYE OF COTE D`IVOIRE 01:58  |  Mohamed Malleck 01/03/08
  61.   Publish this in US 02:01  |  W 01/03/08
  62.   #45, Mark Lincoln 02:06  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/03/08
  63.   #38 02:28  |  Michael Martin-Smith 01/03/08
  64.   Cipora - really? 02:34  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  65.   Cipora - Vietnam and Afghanistan 02:40  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  66.   Mr. Burston has it right 02:53  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  67.   #55, Mark, you must be joking 03:36  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/03/08
  68.   The wind of true Islam.... 04:18  |  Webster 01/03/08
  69.   indrajaya # 1 05:06  |  Mark 01/03/08
  70.   Cipora - not that way at all 05:26  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  71.   The nature of power 05:33  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  72.   Joe Stalin on reality 05:38  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  73.   Respnd to Hassam 05:59  |  TOBIA 01/03/08
  74.   Mark from Ottawa 06:36  |  Red Shia 01/03/08
  75.   Tobia or not to bia 06:41  |  Red Shia 01/03/08
  76.   Funny 06:44  |  Confused 01/03/08
  77.   Islam dooomed! 06:59  |  Stranger 01/03/08
  78.   I Thought It Was Funny 07:17  |  Yosemite 01/03/08
  79.   The Berkeley School of Reality by Prof. Brad Burston 08:06  |  Tod Zuckerman 01/03/08
  80.   # 10 ZAKI 08:22  |  Bill 01/03/08
  81.   to post # 2 from...excuse me...what are YOU, attila? 08:25  |  eric 01/03/08
  82.   #9 MOHAMED 08:29  |  Bill 01/03/08
  83.   WAS MUHAMMED A TRUE PROPHET ?? 08:37  |  Bill 01/03/08
  84.   #1 - Indrajaya 09:04  |  Michael 01/03/08
  85.   atilla karagözoğlu, I am studying the holy Quaran, thanks 10:07  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/03/08
  86.   Dutch, I am leaving for Gaza, pray for me, thanks for everything 10:09  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/03/08
  87.   #70, Mark, wrong answer 10:29  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/03/08
  88.   To :Mark Lincoln - Have you looked at the list? part1 10:51  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 01/03/08
  89.   To :Mark Lincoln - Have you looked at the list? Part 2 10:52  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 01/03/08
  90.   Hasan (56), as long as you need a stick to stagger on 10:54  |  Karl 01/03/08
  91.   Hasan (56), as long as you need a stick to stagger on 10:55  |  Karl 01/03/08
  92.   For BILL: reference? 11:07  |  sheikh 01/03/08
  93.   Red Shia (75) your last sentence, right! Start today! 11:07  |  Karl 01/03/08
  94.   HOW DOES KORAN DESCRIBE ALLAH god OF ISLAM ?? 11:12  |  Bill 01/03/08
  95.   Yaakov, You are an angel, God Bless you 12:27  |  Dutch 01/03/08
  96.   DOES THE BIBLE MENTION MUHAMMED OR ANY DETAIL OF ISLAM ?? 13:01  |  Bill 01/03/08
  97.   BILL 13:35  |  Nihat 01/03/08
  98.   BILL - AGAIN [Post 1} 13:51  |  Nihat 01/03/08
  99.   Dutch 13:55  |  Stranger 01/03/08
  100.   BILL - AGAIN [Post 2] 14:06  |  Nihat 01/03/08
  101.   Islam is Jihadism 14:14  |  Brod 01/03/08
  102.   Bill Part 1 14:17  |  Scholar 01/03/08
  103.   Bill Part 2 14:18  |  Scholar 01/03/08
  104.   Bill Part 3 14:18  |  Scholar 01/03/08
  105.   throwing in the towel so soon? 14:21  |  albert paul ortiz 01/03/08
  106.   #97 NIHAT , 14:24  |  Bill 01/03/08
  107.   Islam Will Win 15:03  |  Neil Schwartz 01/03/08
  108.   I am so grateful and thank God for the Muslim Clerics that are 15:10  |  Virginia 01/03/08
  109.   Sillly Billy 17:06  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  110.   Sillier Billy 17:15  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  111.   Cipora - so? 17:20  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
  112.   #94 Bill - HOW DOES KORAN DESCRIBE ALLAH god OF ISLAM ?? 18:46  |  Billy bob 01/03/08
  113.   #101 Brod 18:55  |  nono 01/03/08
  114.   107 Billy Bob,thanks for expressing what any civilised person 19:59  |  lakshmi 01/03/08
  115.   #108: Read the Qur`an and Other Islamic Texts 20:23  |  Josh 01/03/08
  116.   Tosefta, your Syrian is showing #38 22:10  |  FOX 01/03/08
  117.   #3 Tosefta - Brilliant analysis 22:25  |  Rick 01/03/08
  118.   #35 Cipora - I must respectfully diagree 22:51  |  Rick 01/03/08
  119.   Burston says there are only 91 million Islamic radicals 23:06  |  Johnson 01/03/08
  120.   Rabid Fox on the loose #110 23:11  |  Tosefta 01/03/08
  121.   #59 Cipora - more info was available 23:12  |  Rick 01/03/08
  122.   Islam: Adaptation of Judaism for savage and primitive tribes in 23:54  |  17 01/03/08
  123.   SCHOLAR : 3 POSTS . 23:55  |  Bill 01/03/08
  124.   dutch and indrajaya 00:00  |  micah 02/03/08
  125.   #114, rick from Texas 00:21  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 02/03/08
  126.   So far so good, Bradley 00:29  |  Steve from Raleigh 02/03/08
  127.   #6 Bible Bull 00:31  |  Boycott 02/03/08
  128.   Kafir is NOT an unbeliever 00:35  |  Ahmad 02/03/08
  129.   #96 Bible Bull 00:44  |  Boycott 02/03/08
  130.   Mr.Burston,..Unfortunately Islam,Moderate/Fundemental Is Doomed! 00:58  |  JOSH 02/03/08
  131.   Josh #108 Read the Qur`an 01:55  |  Doug 02/03/08
  132.   Yaacov Sullivan to Gaza? 02:23  |  Tulip 02/03/08
  133.   Cipora - and what happened to Nikita? 02:48  |  Mark Lincoln 02/03/08
  134.   Kumbaya 03:03  |  Fred Goepfert 02/03/08
  135.   #107 BILLY BOB and # 109 LAKSHMI 03:21  |  Bill 02/03/08
  136.   #109 LAKSHMI 03:27  |  Bill 02/03/08
  137.   #124 BOYCOTT 03:37  |  Bill 02/03/08
  138.   The difference between ideology and reality 04:19  |  Mark Lincoln 02/03/08
  139.   The balance of terror 04:24  |  Mark Lincoln 02/03/08
  140.   #1 Indrajaya - believer of the Koran and Hadith 04:26  |  William 02/03/08
  141.   The ultimate epitath of Communism 04:29  |  Mark Lincoln 02/03/08
  142.   # 24 Of course we know... 07:19  |  Hineh Moshiach ba 02/03/08
  143.   to #96 Bill and who told you ,your Bible is 100% correct 07:21  |  Zaki 02/03/08
  144.   to Bill, live in your dreams as long as you feel fine 07:34  |  Zaki 02/03/08
  145.   To Mark Lincoln: What about North Korea? 08:03  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 02/03/08
  146.   The most extreme and violent in the Islamic world - lead 08:07  |  Shalom Freedman 02/03/08
  147.   hahaha 08:47  |  no need to know 02/03/08
  148.   Burston, any wannabe smart piece you can`t read to victims... 08:47  |  disgusted 02/03/08
  149.   YAAKOV SULLIVAN 09:42  |  indrajaya 02/03/08
  150.   #27 Tosefta`s Nonsense 10:24  |  Tim R 02/03/08
  151.   130&131 Bill,are you a zionist or a christian zionist? 11:41  |  lakshmi 02/03/08
  152.   In response to 32 12:00  |  Richard Ferguson 02/03/08
  153.   To :Richard Ferguson (140) How about reading a few books? 12:39  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 02/03/08
  154.   #139 12:44  |  Feiruz Michalani 02/03/08
  155.   Richard Ferguson #140 Chosen For What? 12:50  |  Tim R 02/03/08
  156.   #142 See What I Mean Tossie? 13:19  |  Tim R 02/03/08
  157.   Bill 13:23  |  Scholar 02/03/08
  158.   Josh 13:26  |  Scholar 02/03/08
  159.   A pleasure to read Mladen Andrajesevic`s insightful comments 13:47  |  Shalom Freedman 02/03/08
  160.   To Shalom Freedman (143) : Thank you. 14:37  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 02/03/08
  161.   Allah in the Bible 17:36  |  Akram Kotze 02/03/08
  162.   Why not Islamic Rule? 17:51  |  Akram Kotze 02/03/08
  163.   To: Akram Kotze (162) “Why not Islamic Rule? “. Here is why: 19:58  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 02/03/08
  164.   Even if Islam wins (doubtfully) Muslims still lose 21:17  |  Genuine Tosefta 02/03/08
  165.   #161, Akram...wrong, wrong, wrong! 23:15  |  Wallace 02/03/08
  166.   Akram Kotze #162 Answer To: "Why Not Islamic Rule?" 01:10  |  Tim R 03/03/08
  167.   # 130 josh and the many other naysayers: have you read THIS? 06:33  |  eric 03/03/08
  168.   there is something on islamin the bible 10:43  |  nohalal 03/03/08
  169.   massaraksh 15:15  |  michael3k 03/03/08
  170.   "I have been made victorious of terror." 15:55  |  Ron 03/03/08
  171.   Mohammad treated cats with reverence 21:49  |  Mohammad treated cat 03/03/08
  172.   Islam will defeat the SECULAR JEWS AS WELL! 04:37  |  Jeff 04/03/08
  173.   Bravo 04:51  |  Simon 04/03/08
  174.   Islam is another form of Arab colonialism in disguise Part 1 20:10  |  Genuine Tosefta 04/03/08
  175.   Islam is another form of Arab colonialism in disguise Part 3 20:14  |  Genuine Tosefta 04/03/08
  176.   Islam is another form of Arab colonialism in disguise Part 4 20:15  |  Genuine Tosefta 04/03/08
  177.   Muslim worship god of abraham 02:35  |  abed 05/03/08
  178.   Kotze 09:01  |  sweis Melbourne 05/03/08
  179.   It would be a sad day 12:44  |  sweis Melbourne 05/03/08
  180.   Islam is another form of Arab colonialism in disguise Part 2 15:49  |  Genuine Tosefta 05/03/08
  181.   Abed, as far as we are concerned it is as if you whoreship The Mo 15:58  |  Genuine Tosefta 05/03/08
  182.   Islam 20:33  |  robert 05/03/08
  183.   A political movement disguising as a religion 21:22  |  Passerby 06/03/08
  184.   Bradley won`t let us Quote the Koran 00:49  |  Efox 07/03/08
  185.   michael3k: I`m Only Saying That a Bit of Humility is in Order 02:13  |  massaraksh 07/03/08
  186.   I hope you`re right 03:54  |  J 07/03/08
  187.   If Islam is the True Relgion, then Bradley can win $100,000 04:44  |  Ron 07/03/08
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