They had these ideas of each other as well...when they have no powers, throughout history, then they attack each other. It will take many generations before the "mindset" they have is even remotely healed...and from prophetic viewpoint they never will. They are wired as this. Nothing we do or don't do affects their day to day mentality about the west. Even those in the ME who have been friendly and co-operative with our troops will revert back to what they have known once we are gone. They have virtually no critical thinking abilities, which is why it takes hardly anything for the Mulas to get them riled up...and they do so often. The Koran is the Gun they use to the peoples heads to control them and keep themselves in power....and it is a deadly gun at that. No-one burning a Koran or otherwise will change their outlook on us...they have and do kill on notice...without provocation. Take a serious look at England and France and the Netherlands on how being "nice" and appeasing them has worked out. Watch some of their videos on what they are now contending with with the Muslims in their country...and that will surely be here if our people do not speak out in ways that are understood by the Muslims...they understand these burnings is clearly opposing them...they do not see being nice and catering to them as befriending them.. rather equipping them to continue with their agenda in this country.
The biggest problem re militant Islam is that so much Saudi money is going into financing Wahabi Madassas. The Wahabi sect was founded several centuries ago. It came from the poorest most backward area of Saudi Arabia and is now being spread throughout the Muslim world. In madrassas, Islamic schools, all they usually do is recite the Koran in Arabic, even if the local language is something else. Often they are not even taught Arabic to the point where they understand what they are reciting. This is rather like when Christianity was all in Latin. Martin Luther’s revolution was both to fight corruption in the Church, and to spread the use of local languages. The Muslim’s have not had their Martin Luther.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is a Somali woman who grew up in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Kenya and had her intellectual awakening and activism when she escaped a forced marriage by moving to the Netherlands. She made the controversial movie “Submission” with Theo van Gogh who was murdered by an Islamist. I heard her speak 3 years ago and at the time she was working for a conservative US think tanks that was also protecting her. Her book “Infidel” describes her transition from a traditional Muslim upbringing, with genital mutilation performed by her grandmother when her parents were away, to her current state of non-belief. Anyone who wishes to understand the plight of women in Islam should read this very personal book.