Al-Qaeda faces Islamist backlash :

Al-Qaeda's violent methods and tactics have been coming under mounting criticism this year from Islamist scholars who once supported it.

Osama bin Laden's defiant message has inspired many Muslims
One by one they have been coming out in public to denounce the organisation's actions as being counterproductive.
But at the same time, a leading British de-radicaliser says the number of young British Muslims attracted to violent extremism is growing - and, he claims, the UK government is partly to blame.
In the living room of his London home, the Libyan former jihadist Nu'man Bin Othman reads out part of the open letter he sent recently to al-Qaeda's no 2 and chief strategist, Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri.
He tells him that al-Qaeda's tactics have been a failure and - most damningly - its methods un-Islamic.
He even questions its very claim to speak for Muslims.