>> if it becomes Islam versus West. <<
Just like MS and before them IBM, perhaps there is a certain pattern that global politics falls/shifts into on its own: freedom vs. forced-idealism. We had it with the Soviets, and now perhaps with religion extremism. The Soviets used Marxist doctrine as an excuse, and now they will be using (misquoted) Koran as the excuse.
People perhaps WANT a boogy-man, and they gravitate toward it, one way or another.
We better get de-hooked from oil.