the Islamic ‘civilization' contains a number of deep fault-lines that impede the cooperation required to challenge the West.
The extremely bloody sectarian violence between Sunni and Shi’a in Iraq is only one example of these very real fissures. Militant Islamic calls to kill non-combatants and fellow Muslims represent another internal fault-line. Non-believers fall into the categories of infidels (those of different religion) and apostates (those Muslims who do not share their interpretation of the Koran). As a result, Osama bin Laden's unequivocal sanction to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to kill Muslim Shia in Iraq in 2005 calls into question the morality of the means, and therefore the legitimacy of bin Laden and militant Islam as the champions of Muslim values among the wider and moderate Islamic community.