I would say that it depend on which part of the world you are talking about. I can say for Southeast Asia, despite this morning bombings, radical Islam is in yearly decline. Voting behaviour shows that radical Islamic party never had a good grasp of the Southeast Asian citizens. Malaysia saw PAS loosing votes because of its hardline Islamic platform. It even lost its strong hold province where it tried to introduce Sharia law. Then you have Indonesia where the radical Islamic parties gather no more then 13% of the total votes in the parlimentarian election. And this votes was shared between 6 parties, which made the faction a very weak faction. In fact, PPP realized that it can no longer run on the Islamic state platform and has instead changed itself. It changed from an exclusive Islamic party into an inclusive conservative party that has a nationalist platform.
So, it all depend on which locations. Some will see a rise in radical Islam, other will see a stagnation, and other a drop.
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At least the Muslim world is beginning to fight this movement. One still has to wonder how these commentators feel about the murder of Israeli children. Many might still call that justified.
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Just because you don't hear it in the media, it does not mean that there haven't any struggle against this movement. Just look at what the NU and Muhammadiyah has done to theologically combat radical Islam.