OK, so what does victory in a war against all of Islam look like?
It will look like Mithraism looks today.
Having said that, the Pentagon is seriously cracked on this one. Did you see the 60 minutes special on a Northern Virginia Salafi school?
The United States needs to use carrots and sticks to reward countries like Dubai and Iraq that are moving in the right direction and punish countries like Syria and Iran that are not.
Just imagine-- if a Democrat hadn't been elected president, we almost certainly wouldn't have had the current evil regime in Iran to deal with. If one hadn't been elected again, we would have had Bin Ladin in custody and 9-11 might not have occured. The biggest and best thing Americans can do in the WOT is to make sure Democrats aren't elected.
This is from a Sufi organization--- the kind of Islam the United States should encourage if it encourages any kind at all.
Today, leaders of Salafi organizations routinely use these critiques to turn Muslims away from the Sufi message... ...This tyranny can be observed even in liberal democratic countries such as the United States. The American Muslim, a widely distributed magazine published by the Muslim American Society of Falls Church, Virginia, contains an advice column in which a "Sheikh" named Muhammad al-Hanooti gives fatwas on various aspects of Muslim life and practice. In the September 2003 issue, a woman who has been approached by "a good Muslim man" for marriage inquires about her suitor's practice of Sufism (p. 38). She wonders about the suitability of a Sufi for marriage because she does "not want to end up with someone who does something wrong against Islam." Hanooti's response clearly illustrates the danger that Salafi ideas pose for Sufis who wish to remain active in their communities.... "In general, I would caution you against marrying a Sufi, for a great many of them do not have a good knowledge of Islam and are tilted toward lives of inconvenience." By counseling the woman to not marry a Sufi, Hanooti is in effect saying that Sufis are not Muslims and that the Qur'anic ban against a Muslim woman's marriage to a non-Muslim applies not only to the followers of other religions, but to Sufis as well.
The Salafi organizations from Falls Church are bad news. We should not be encouraging them in their intolerance and and hatred.