I read the entire article and I gotta say, that the author and I suppose the Brit liberal establishment strikes me as being extremely smug and arrogant and dismissive about the chances for this to succeed, especially considering the huge number of hostiles they’ve imported into their own country. This could well blow up in their faces and frankly, that wouldn’t hurt my feelings any considering the ridiculous disregard their crappy government has exhibited toward the interests of their native population, i.e., BRITISH ANGLO-SAXON!
Here is a 2006 article on it from th Washington Post.
It takes it more seriously, but has an underlying premise that establishing a Caliphate is not necessarily radical.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301816_pf.html
The title is “Reunified Islam: Unlikely but Not Entirely Radical
Restoration of Caliphate, Attacked by Bush, Resonates With Mainstream Muslims”
It quotes Bush in this passage: “In language evoking the Cold War, Bush has cast the conflict in Iraq as the pivotal battleground in a larger contest between advocates of freedom and those who seek to establish ‘a totalitarian Islamic empire reaching from Spain to Indonesia.’”