Here’s something we haven’t seen, but is a very good sign that we are. Sunnis are marching in the streets, chanting that al Qaeda is the enemy of Allah.

Sunni Arab tribesmen have vowed revenge for the killing of a leader who had become a focal point for opposition to al-Qaeda in Iraq.

More than 1,500 mourners attended the funeral of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, who was killed in a bomb attack in the city of Ramadi, Anbar province, on Thursday…

Iraq’s national security adviser, interior minister and defence minister all attended the funeral in Ramadi, along with the second-in-command of US forces in Iraq, Lt-Gen Raymond Odierno…

Mourners chanted “We will take our revenge” and “There is no God but Allah and al-Qaeda is the enemy of Allah” as the procession continued to the family cemetery…

He told the Reuters news agency: “All the tribes agreed to fight al-Qaeda until the last child in Anbar.”

AJStrata writes:

Six years ago the US saw the cheers of Palestinians at the destruction of 9-11. We saw the smiles of Saddam and his butchers and we heard the gloating of Bin Laden. Six years later Saddam is gone and Bin Laden is still running from justice. But now Iraqis are chanting “al-Qaeda is the enemy of Allah”. This is a stunning turn around, and it is all due to the wide gulf that separates American values from al-Qaeda’s bloodlust and hunger for absolute power over others.

When Muslim are chanting these things about al-Qaeda it is clear we have hit a turning point in the war on Terror. The Muslim street DOES see us as liberators and protectors in Iraq. And it sees we have a common enemy in al-Qaeda. And only foolish and blind liberals would run out on these people now, just as they have turned from al-Qaeda and embraced us as allies. The worst kind of fools actually – those who care as much about the Iraqis as al-Qaeda does.

al-Qaeda has gone too far in Iraq, it is now the enemy of Islam in the minds of Iraqi Muslims.

Can you imagine the devastating consequences of leaving these people right now, abandoning them to be taken over by al Qaeda? Think they’d ever trust us again? Think they’d take our side? Think they’d even survive?