Glenn Reynolds pointed me in the direction of this article:
Some 20,000 people took to the streets in the western German city of Cologne on Sunday, waving German and Turkish flags, to protest against the use of violence in the name of Islam.
Peaceful protest against the violence that has reached Europe in more tangible, to politicians, manner. Even Gerhard Schröder is talking about a “conflict of cultures”, and perhaps beginning to understand the threat.
In the Arab world, others are asking the tough questions, too:
We do not ask ourselves why no other religious group perpetrates these acts of atrocity, and when a terrorist country like Israel does so, it does not say it is killing in the name of the Lord or in the name of Allah, but claims it is doing so out of self-defense. Why Allah is [held responsible] for our bad deeds and for our desire for revenge… Why don’t we act like [Israel] and say that these acts are for self-defense or for defense of the homeland, without bringing Allah and Islam into it?
Okay. So the author refers to Israel as a terrorist country. At least some are beginning to look at themselves in a different way.