In an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations, Fawaz A. Gerges,

…an expert on the insurgency movement in Iraq and on the jihad movement in the Muslim world, says the bombings at three Amman hotels last month have produced “a turning point in the Middle East.” He says the overall disgust with these violent policies has also led to what he calls “the beginning of a civil war within the Sunni community in Iraq and the rest of the Arab world,” in which Sunnis are planning to defy Zarqawi and vote in large numbers later this month to have a role in the new Iraqi government.

From the interview:

I think we are witnessing a turning point in the Middle East, because I think more and more Muslims are having a closer look, not only at the [Abu Musab] Zarqawi network but also at the parent organization that is al-Qaeda. As you know, the basis for al-Qaeda is that it must wage jihad against the United States and its Western allies. What has happened in the last two or three years in particular, is that now al-Qaeda is waging its war in the heart of the ummah, the Muslim community worldwide. I think the overwhelming numbers of victims are Arabs and Muslims. These include Egyptians, Jordanians, Saudis, Indonesian, Turks, Moroccans. And I think many Arabs and Muslims are saying…

And the Iraqis of course. Many Arabs and Muslims are saying “Hey, you are killing Arabs and Muslims. You are killing innocent Westerners, who have nothing to do with American foreign policy.” And I think in this particular sense Arabs and Muslims are getting a closer look at the brutal tactics used and abused by al-Qaeda, particularly by the Zarqawi network in Iraq and elsewhere.