Omar over at Iraq the Model finally comments on the cartoon b.s.:

I swear that 90%+ of the protestors in Muslim countries have not seen the cartoons and do not know the name of the paper and when I say that I'm sure of it because I have access to the web 24/7 and I spent a really long time searching for the cartoons and couldn’t find them until a
friend emailed me a link . . . .

You know that those cartoons were published for the 1st time months ago and we here in the Middle East have tonnes of jokes about Allah, the prophets and the angels that are way more offensive, funny and obscene than those poorly-made cartoons, yet no one ever got shot for telling
one of those jokes or at least we had never seen rallies and protests against those infidel joke-tellers.

Omar makes a good point. Keep in mind who stands to gain from encouraging this fracas.