Fundamentalist Islamic candidates in the most recent Iraqi elections, those
individuals who belonged to clerical parties like the Islamic Revolution in
Iraq founded by Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, won 65%% of the seats in the new
parliament.
While opinion surveys can be suspect, and are often tainted by the manner in
which a question is phrased, there are two that are worth mentioning.
Opinion polls taken by the British Government reveal that 70%% of Iraqis
think killing Americans is justified, something that is impossible to
justify outside the conditioning of fundamentalist Islam. The rising death
toll of American troops and stunning escalation in terror in Iraq give
credence to those numbers. Polls taken in Pakistan, where bin Laden is being
harbored, reveal that 70%% of Pakistanis view the world's most famous Islamic
terrorist very favorably. In fact, Osama has become the most popular name
for boys in the region.
Therefore, based upon the most objective data available to us, at least 60%%
of all Muslims have the potential to be jihadists by way of their
fundamentalist voting patterns. That is to say, Islam has grown
substantially closer to its salafi, and thus terrorist, roots over the past
decade. It is safe to say that 750 million Muslims are fundamentalists
trying to follow Allah's orders and Muhammad's example. And as ...