The Washington Post has accomplished that fact. They've published an extensive roundup of the events and circumstances of the riots. Yet, they've purposefully excluded publication of the very cartoons that caused the rioting in the first place.
And they lead the entire piece with a most intriguing insight - many Muslims simply didn't find the cartoons to be outrageous, blasphemous, or even worth their time to respond to the Beirut paper that ran one of the cartoons (the one with Mohammad with a turban shaped like a bomb):
It was Oct. 13 when Teguh Santosa, a 30-year-old editor with wire-rim glasses, slicked-back black hair and a stubbly beard, decided to make a point in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country. His idea was a small gesture in a broader confrontation, illustrating the power of images in shaping sentiments. He scanned a dozen cartoons published in September by a Danish newspaper that lampooned the prophet Muhammad and chose to publish the one on his news Web site that has proven the most inflammatory: the prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.They weren't reacting because it wasn't a crisis. It wasn't worth the effort. It wasn't deemed worthy of rioting, torching, and killing. Until the militant mullahs and imams, not to mention a couple of rogue nations and their sympathizers around the world decided that they were going to make this an issue. One with deadly consequences.
"I wanted them to know why it was insulting," said the thickset Santosa, a Muslim who runs the widely read Rakyat Merdeka Online.
To his surprise, there was almost no reaction. A few e-mailed comments to the Web site, he said. That was all. So he republished the caricature more than a week later, on Oct. 22. Again, nothing.
"We were confused," he recalled, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. "Why aren't people reacting to this story?"
Curious. And despite the long article, they still get some basic facts and issues wrong. Sundries Shack has the details:
The reporters allege that one of the photos in Akkari’s portfolio “…depicted Muhammad as a pig …”. That photo was actually of a French man who was an entry in a pig-calling contest. It had nothing to do with Islam whatsoever. This information has been available for well over a week.That's just one bit - there's much more over at Sundries Shack. The Washington Post tried to spin the article to make it appear that the Muslims are the real victims in all this, yet they're closely bound to the riots in every conceivable way - from inciting others to violence, to spreading false stories, to failing to stop others from committing ostensible acts of war (firebombing and torching foreign embassies).
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