Yes, I think it's likely they will subside.
One of the big factors driving the adoption of more hardline forms of Islam around the globe is Saudi Arabia, which funds Wahhabi mosques madrassas, books, TV stations, etc.
This, incidentally, goes well beyond just religious texts. Anecdote: One of my friends, who has read the Persian poet Rumi, once started talking to an Egyptian about him. One of the things about Rumi is that he goes on and on about the pleasures of drinking wine. The Egyptian, who had also read Rumi, was completely ignorant of his mentions of wine. Apparently, the version of his works that the Egyptian had read had been compiled by Saudi publishers who had excised all mentions of "illicit" themes.
I suspect there is a great deal of this going on. And according to surveys Arabs don't read a lot and what they do read mostly is religious texts which would be the most vulnerable to this sort of hijacking.
Since the Saudi economy is so utterly dependent on oil - and their ~80 national IQ precludes a transition to manufacturing let alone finance or hi-tech - the waning of the oil age will imply the onset of fiscal hardships, which will massively degrade its ability to spread its malignant interpretations of Islam around the world.
This maybe a bold prediction considering trends in Islam since 1979, but social attitudes never become more hardline or more libertine indefinitely; they tend to oscillate. Note that under the (original) Caliphate pseudo-atheists were actually tolerated which is more than than you can say for large parts of the Islamic world today.
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