How It'll End, and Why

The Danish Cartoon Controversy rages on, with no end in sight. Embassies are burning across the Middle East, while Western newspapers scream "freedom of the press!" The Arab world is alternately angry at the West and itself. But a piece in Saudi Arabia's Al-Jazirah newspaper (quoted in a Slate article) glints a critical eye at how this all tends to go down:

"Muslims are the strongest people in the world when it comes to individual reactions and the weakest when it comes to institutionalized operations. Events have taught us that every reaction to such attacks on Islam (wherever they may take place) ends with institutionalized responses aimed at sapping the popular, local anger, but not at treating the issue in the place where it broke out."