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But the converse was – they stressed – also true. When they saw ordinary Westerners trying to uphold human rights, their jihadism began to stutter. Almost all of them said that they doubted their Islamism when they saw a million non-Muslims march in London to oppose the Iraq War: "How could we demonise people who obviously opposed aggression against Muslims?" asks Hadiya.
What obviously broke the spell of the cult-like sway of Islam was the conflict of reality with fantasy: contributing to their fantasies of persecution only reinforces those delusions.