Recent newspaper editorial comment:

SO,WHERE'S THE RIOT?

On Friday,May 27,at least eighteen people were killed and several dozen wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself at a crowed Muslin shrine on the outskirts of Islamabad.Altough the identity of the bomber is unknown,it is widely believed the attack is yet another chapter in the long-running battle between Pakistan's Sunni and Shiite Muslim extremists.
Given recent eventa,we would have expected the attack to set off riots all over the Islamic world,with Muslims outraged at the senseless death of their co-religionists.But these riots,strangely,did not materialize.Apparently,a rumor that the bomb had knocked a copy of the Koran into a toilet bowl proved unfounded.