The direction and scope and vehemence of the protests are irrational.....but the irrationality of the subject of the whole thing is built in to the very culture doing the protesting!

You can protest all day that "they shouldn't get so upset and go blaming ALL Danes, and including Americans, etc.." but how is it different from two school boys fighting when one insults the other's Mama?   They have created artifical 'rules' intended to exhalt certain cultural concepts and heighten animosities with anyone who breaks those rules....it makes no sense, except by some convoluted,arcane internal system....but deciding it is foolish doesn't make it any safer to flaunt!

**When you are dealing with irrational, emotional people, you should EXPECT irrational, emotional behavior**

It's like telling a vicious dog he shouldn't bite you! He wants to bite you...for whatever reason.

It will take many, many, MANY years of education, soothing, diplomacy (internal & external), economic upheaval and just plain luck, to alter either the attitude of millions of Muslims that 'perceived insults' deserve violent reprisal!

This is very little different from attitudes sometimes seen in Christianity by certain people and by individuals in Western society under other circumstances! (When did you last read of some guy in car chasing down someone who raised a middle finger and causing accident, injury or death?) It is just a matter of degree and focus!

YOU CANNOT REASON WITH THE UNREASONABLE!