Here is a succinct and accurate diagnosis by the estimable Victor Davis Hanson:
The wrath of the Muslim Street can be explained in terms something like this: Islamists have convinced the Arab masses that their present mess is not their own fault.
Discussions of the pernicious effects of endemic tribalism, misogyny,statism, anti-Semitism, fundamentalism, religious intolerance, xenophobia, and anti-modernism are taboo. So there is never serious reflection about self-induced pathologies that keep fostering a Saddam Hussein, Muslim Brotherhood, and Ba’ath Party, or the preconditions that throughout much of the 20th century made the Arab world so susceptible to Hitlerism, then Soviet communism, then Baathism, then Western authoritarianism, then authoritarianism, and, then, or rather always back to, Islamic radicalism.
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