End of appeasement?

There is a significant positive side to the ongoing brouhaha over the remarks made by the Pope, and it is the fact that the West is finally starting to wake up and see the nature of the enemy we're facing. It was easy to ingore when something President Bush said or did, caused muslim hysteria. ("What do you expect from that semi-literate cowboy in the White House?") Even the Danish cartoonists could be left to fend for themselves, dissed by the Left as a bunch of reactionaries, whose gross cultural insensitivity got them what they deserved. But with this recent incident it is becoming awfully hard to keep on blaming  the victim. (Cowboy in the Vatican? An insensitive reactionary? Doesn't quite fit...) Yes, there are still those who try: Scott Adams, the creator of the occasionally funny Dilbert cartoons, has this imbecilic reaction to the news of firebombing of churches in the West Bank: "WHAT THE HELL ARE CHURCHES DOING IN THE WEST BANK?????????" (Hmm, yes, what are churches doing in the land of Jesus? And what the hell are mosques doing in Europe and America?). However, their numbers are rapidly shrinking. Case in point: blogger Matoko Kusanagi posted her criticism of the Pope for "poking the snake". One only needs to scroll down and read the dozens of comments posted on her blog to see that appeasement no longer has the same appeal it did only a few months ago. Pope: 1, moslems: less than 0.