I tripped over this interesting perspective from the World Peace Herald on the global war on terror, and how it is not going the way of the Muslims.

Outside View: The Muslim mind is on fire
By Youssef M. Ibrahim
UPI Outside View Commentator
Published July 25, 2005

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The world of Islam is on fire. Indeed the Muslim mind is on fire. Above all the West is now ready to take both of them on.

OK, now you see what caught my eye. And it continued to catch my eye

The latest reliable reports confirm that on average 33 Iraqis die every day, executed by Iraqis and foreign jihadis and suicide bombers, not by U.S. or British soldiers. In fact, fewer than ever U.S. or British soldiers are dying since the invasion more than two years ago. Instead we now watch on television hundreds of innocent Iraqis lying without limbs, bleeding in the streets dead or wounded for life. If this is jihad, someone got his religious education completely upside down.

I wish I had the time to learn more about the author and the site. Here is an intriguing snippet on the author though

Youssef M. Ibrahim, a former Middle East correspondent for the New York Times and energy editor of the Wall Street Journal, is managing director of the Dubai-based Strategic Energy Investment Group.

This doesn’t sound like you typical Muslim-Arab news outfit. The author goes on to list all the hot spots ‘on fire’ across the world and how they are harming muslim causes – not helping them. But then he returns to the historical time line

The excuse in all the above cases was the war in Iraq, but let us not forget that in September 2001, long before Iraq, Osama bin Laden proudly announced that he had ordered the killing of some 3,000 in the United States, in the name of avenging Islam. Let us not forget the killing began a long time before the invasion of Iraq.

Indeed, jihadis have been killing for a decade in the name of Islam. They killed innocent tourists and natives in Morocco and Egypt, in Africa, in Indonesia and in Yemen, all done in the name of Islam by Muslims who say they are better than all other Muslims. They killed in India, in Thailand and are now talk of killing in Germany and Denmark and so on. There were attacks with bombs that killed scores inside Shiite and Sunni mosques, inside churches and inside synagogues in Turkey and Tunisia, with Muslim preachers saying it is OK to kill Jews and Christians — the so called infidels.

Above all it is the Muslim mind that is on fire.

An interesting read.