That's just it -- they don't care. In fact, they actually welcome the conflict because they believe that a) their moon god will protect them and give them victory, no matter the odds, and b) that even if they die in the process, they will become martyrs and reap rewards in paradise.
Given the fact that the typical foot soldier they recruit lives pretty much in hell on earth -- dirt poor, uneducated, sexually repressed, frustrated, and/or abused, and taught nothing but hatred and violence -- it's no wonder that so many opt for abandoning that life for the promise of paradise.
Perhaps there's more to the left's appeasement of Islamicism than simple cowardice or lack of desire to protect Western culture. Perhaps they see in the Islamists the seed for the type and level of control they wish to impose on their own "comrades", and want to leave the Islamists unchecked enough to study them and see how to adapt the methods into their "progressive" worldview/religion.
And I think they're doing it on purpose. I think they're really focusing on the "outside" folks -- the idea being to foment a worldwide religious war: Islam vs. everybody else.
The "inside" part of the strategy is more subtle, and quite clever. Specifically, they know that if the "outside" strategy works, they'll have most Islamic people behind them. But they dont -- and won't -- control the governments of Islamic countries, and they need to do that in order to create their caliphate.
And so they're also setting themselves up against the likes of Musharraf, creating a "strategic civil war," of the governments vs. the salamikazes.
And then, when their "outside" strategy works and the war begins, they can blame the government for playing along with the infidels, and gain control by a series of revolutions.
Pretty smart, actually, in an insane sort of way.
Re: At least 12 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a lawyers rally in Islamabad, Pakistani police say.
Perhaps the islamists are now reading Shapespeare?