European newspapers print offensive caricatures; extremists in Muslim countries respond with threats of various kinds, diplomatic condemnations, and now the latest: setting fire to Norwegian and Danish diplomatic posts in Syria and Lebanon, which is to say Syria. Norwegian (and presumably Danish) authorities are probably done apologizing and are now expressing anger.
I hate to bring this up, but:
Maybe, just maybe, Denmark and Norway and a few other European countries are waking up to the fact that the regimes of Iran, Syria, and Libya, are bad not just because Israel and the US says so - they really are bad. Now that they are (justly) outraged by attacks on their sovereign territory by state-sanctioned extremists, perhaps they can start imagining how Israelis feel about rockets, bombs, artillery fire, being a regular occurence from these countries.
It should be getting pretty obvious here: the unrest in the Middle East is not a result of Israel's existence or policy; not the plight of the Palestinians; and certainly not of Islam. It is the result of brutal, corrupt, and unjustly rich regimes (whether secular or theocratic) that are dedicated to nothing but themselves.
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