The Muslim riots were fomented by Muslim leaders after a Muslim living in Denmark failed to get the retractions/ apologies he sought from the Danish papers, then personally and through every means of support he could find, worked up to international Muslim leaders, and in so doing he not only used as evidence the cartoons that were actually published, which by Western standards are in no ways extreme, but included some blatent rabid anti-Muslim cartoons that were beyond nasty. In so doing he blended actual publications with others which were nothing but an emotional appeal to incitement. When he was being interviewed he made no defense of this tactic.

The Muslim newspapers throughout the Middle East do not stint from much nastier stuff than has ever appeared in the major periodicals of the rest of the world. And The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has made it into a television series.