1%of10%of 1 billion=global al-qaeda

City of Peace, 1258, the Mongol horde.
After five centuries, Abbasid caliphate defeated.
U S invasion of Iraq, later day Mongols.
Muslims embrace pluralism = military defeat
at the hands of unbelievers. The destruction
of the House of Wisdom, the caliph trampled
to death. Unbelievers, worldly knowledge.
The Ottoman Empire fell in1918: same reason.
Accomodation, tolerance, rulers gone soft.

Kosovo, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Chechnia,
Defeat of the Taliban: cataclysmic events,
Opportunities to purify Muslim souls to
Prepare for battle with the West.
Battle of Ayn Jalut (Palestine) 1260, the
Mamluks able to halt the Mongol tide.
The conquerors converted to Islam in
Less than a century. God's scheme:
Islam's supremacy in the world.

"the hour [of the world's end] shall not
occur until the Euphrates will disclose
a mountain of gold, over which people
will fight." *

the final battle between good (the rightly
guided), and evil, (the deceiver). Asymmterical
warfare, revenge rather than compromise.
The battle has no front line, not limited
To a few years, a few decades.
One billion Muslims around the globe.
The swelling of fundamentalist ranks:

1 percent accept uncompromising theology,
10 percent of that 1 percent commit themselves
to radical agenda (jihad)