Funny that the actual root cause of all these events is not any hostile move, but is fear.
Fear creates mass hysteria and causes countries to take irrational decisions. One of the results of fear, rather than the actual preceding incident itself, was that all muslims and arabs were automatically branded as suicidal religious extremist maniacs whereas the brand for all westerners were debauched, oil-greedy imperialists.
There is hardly any tool better for corrupting a people's perspective than fear.