Daniel Pipes: Cycles of Violence cause less Violence

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Nepalese responded to this atrocity (Nepalese workers being executed in Iraq) by venting their anger by assaulting the Muslim minority in Nepal. Hundreds of infuriated young men surrounded Katmandu's one mosque on Aug. 31 and heaved rocks at it. Violence escalated the next day, with five thousand demonstrators taking to the street, yelling slogans like "We want revenge," "Punish the Muslims," and "Down with Islam." Some attacked the mosque, broke into it, ransacked it, and set fire to it. Hundreds of Korans were thrown onto the street, and some were burned.

Rioters also looted other identifiably Muslim targets in the capital city, including embassies and airline bureaus belonging to Muslim-majority countries. A Muslim-owned television station and the homes of individual Muslims came under attack. Mobs even sacked the agencies that recruit Nepalese to work in the Middle East.
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Returning to recent events: the abhorrent Nepalese violence reflected an instinct for self-preservation – hit me and I will hit you back. In contrast, the sophisticated French reaction was supine – hit me and I will beg you to stop. If history is a guide, the Nepalese thereby made a repetition of atrocities against themselves less likely. And the French made such a repetition more likely.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2076

If Pipes' logic is correct, then there shouldn't be a Palestinian Israeli Conflict, and torturing people wouldn't cause insurgents to cut off people's heads, and using pre-emptive war won't cause people like Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi to kill both civilians and American Soldiers.