Who brings what to WW-IV?

This review of a new book contains some sobering thoughts:

WORLD WAR IV? - Yahoo! News:
"Begin with our military superiority, which would appear to make victory inevitable. 'Islamists have nothing like the military machine the Axis deployed in World War II, nor the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

What do the Islamists have to compare with the Wehrmacht or the Red Army? The SS or Spetznaz? The Gestapo or the KGB? Or, for that matter, to Auschwitz or the Gulag?' A thoughtful answer to that question is sobering. The Islamists have:
'-- A potential access to weapons of mass destruction that could devastate Western life.
'-- A religious appeal that provides deeper resonance and greater staying power than the artificial ideologies of fascism or communism.
'-- An impressively conceptualized, funded and organized institutional machinery that successfully builds credibility, goodwill and electoral success.
'-- An ideology capable of appealing to Muslims of every size and shape, from Lumpenproletariat to privileged, from illiterates to Ph.D.s, from the well-adjusted to psychopaths, from Yemenis to Canadians.
' Add to the above 'a huge number of committed cadres. If Islamists constitute 10 percent to 15 percent of the Muslim population worldwide, they number some 125 million to 200 million persons, or a far greater total than all the fascists and communists, combined, who ever lived.'"

If we're going to win the war on terror, then we have an interest in how the Muslim religion is taught & spread. Currently, the Saudis finance more Islamic churches & schools than any other group, and in this, they're subsidizing some of the most radical clerics out there (the Wahhabi sect). Now that they're feeling some pain back home, they're beginning to address the problem of radicalized young men, but they still need to change what is taught in their schools & services.

Islam isn't likely to be transformed by a Christ-like messiah anytime soon, so it needs to be transformed by the clerics and the Muslims themselves. We need to find ways of making moderate beliefs more attractive, while at the same time casting the radical beliefs in a bad light. Perhaps if the media reported terror attacks as failures by the Muslim world instead of failures by the Western world it would help.