[sam_paine]

These rallies will only cement the ill image many Arabs and Westerners have of one another. The former see the latter as irreligious libertines, while Muslims get labeled as oversensitive fanatics. It is a sad exchange, overcome only through awareness, acceptance, understanding, and respect. Will wiser heads prevail? Humankind is capable of great virtue, but it is easily marred.

Well, any generalization is necessarily somewhat inaccurate....but these two seem pretty correct.

The majority of the west are irreligious libertines and the majority of the muslim world are oversensitive fanatics.

[TigersEye]

It is a sad exchange, overcome only through awareness, acceptance, understanding, and respect. Will wiser heads prevail? Humankind is capable of great virtue, but it is easily marred.

The generalizations are somewhat accurate (if incomplete) but the above sentiments are noble yet naive. Any expectation that virtue will somehow just overcome the realities of the world is a pipe dream.