I was reading a mystery the other day, and the protagonist made an interesting comment. "Most angry behavior is rooted in fear." Thinking over my own life, I had to agree.

Now apply this to Muslims. Let me list some of the shocks of recent years: the tsunamis, the terrible earthquake in Pakistan, the Desert Storm war, the Desert Shield war, Hussein's genocide towards the Kurds, the war in Lebanon, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq.

Add to that a population, many of whom face the stressors of not enough food, not enough water, no medical care, and a culture which denies people the economic and scientific paths to solving these problems.

Is it any surprise that, when faced with the news that somebody is deliberately trying to get Allah's goat, that these people respond with anger rooted in fear?

I think it's time to do some thinking about everything these people are going through.