Its not always one step forward.....

"The principal goal of terrorism -- to seize power in Muslim countries through mobilization of populations galvanized by jihad's sheer audacity -- has not been realized," Kepel writes. In fact, bin Laden's followers are losing ground: The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been toppled; the fence-sitting semi-Islamist regime in Saudi Arabia has taken sides more strongly with the West; Islamists in Sudan and Libya are in retreat; and the plight of the Palestinians has never been more dire. And Baghdad, the traditional seat of the Muslim caliphs, is
under foreign occupation. Not what you would call a successful jihad.

Read the column here. (Hat tip: Pejmanesque)

I have to believe in people and in Islams ability to sift out what is wrong with these fanatics. I believe that they will and are doing so.