The situation in Mali doesn't really reflect this: that the root of the conflict was religious. We shouldn't be too quick in saying that Mali is a failure. This was a completely unexpected coup after 20 years of democracy. Right next door in Senegal, we had a president who wanted to stay on be booted out in a democratic election.
I think this took the people of Mali, in fact, by surprise. One person said to me: “We feel ashamed. We were in fact very proud of our status as a democracy for 20 years. We cannot believe ourselves that this has happened.”
The roots of this conflict are in fact internal—how the military was feeling. And it's a faction of the military; we don't even think it's the full military that's involved. It had to do with Tuareg rebels and did not necessarily have a religious motivation.
That being said, some of the groups that are going to take advantage of this situation are Salafist jihadists, including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.