Moderate Islam's Voice

BBC News gives a roundup of editorials in the Middle Eastern press about the destructive protests in Syria and Lebanon against the Danish and Norwegian embassies, following newspaper publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammed.

From Algeria:

It is no coincidence that it is only in Damascus and Beirut that the embassies of Denmark and Norway were set ablaze and nowhere else... Syria, which is in the hot seat because of possible repercussions following the international inquiry into the assassination of Hariri... has every reason to want to divert the world's attention and have the world focus on another issue... It is time to stop exploiting the anger of the masses to achieve political goals such as saving a party or regime. Such action can also be viewed as another form of blasphemy.

How often do we get the western press to report on moderate voices in Iran, for goodness' sake? Hmm?

From Iran, the squib is critical, but the implications are more transparent:

Are those angry young men who burnt Danish flags and tried to enter the embassies of those countries ignorant demagogues? ... When we think about the matter, we find that the crisis has covered up a lot of problems among Muslims themselves and given a real impetus for believers to unite in order to distinguish friend from foe.

I mean, how many ways can this be read?