I believe that Islam has started to turn on it's self. The instability is starting to show, in fighting and not reading the same text the same way. Power struggle among the self proclaimed religious leaders are miss leading their followers in miss understanding and selfish teachings.
The sadness in this dilemma is, when some light begins to shine on there paths of self destruction, Israel will become their new focus. Israel will be seen as the perpetrator of all their in-fighting, miseries, and the cause of all that is wrong.
Thus the beginning of the end. No one will be able to change their direction.

I agree that collapse is a real option, if we can stand the ground. For Al-Qaeda, the clock is ticking:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018933.php

Not yielding to Islamist demands of 'respect' is important right now. If we can stem the tide and keep making Islam look ridicolous & grossly outdated, I concur the notion that it can be made to lose its credibility, and in particular its inferior ability to benefit people. Not least compared to modern Western democracy.

We have work to do :)
 

Islam has existed for 14 centuries... what makes the writer think it is collapsing? Indeed, Islam is strengthened by Saudi oil money and demographic growth (thanks to Western technology).

Wishful thinking.  If anything is "collapsing", it's Western civilization.

Not unlike the DDR, which was facing an economical collapse several years before the wall fell.

Now, West Germany bailed out DDR. Was that a compassionate thing to do, or evil misuse of money?

I vote for the latter. And hope we can keep the Islamist fanatics well inside the Middle East, hoping they'll blow up each other before the ethnic cleansing of non-Muslim minorities is brought to completion...

"the slow-motion collapse of Islam"
That is exactly what is going on in front of our eyes and accelerating since 10 years or so. People don't dig enough to understand the deep roots of the muslims' violent behaviour all over the world. But the fact that Islam is reaching the end of the road is the main drive behind all that violent mess. This culture (should we really call it a religion ??) was doomed to fail from the start, but it managed to somehow survive by eliminating non-muslims in their midst, until the era of world tourism, satellite dishes and the internet, when the failures of Islam appeared so obvious and vexing to millions of muslims that they had to vent their anger on these successful and enviable Westerners and Jews.