Newsweek and riots

Newsweek printed a story about Guanatanamo investigators flushing Korans down the toilet, there were riots in Afghanistan, 15 people or so got killed.

I am not even saying anything about Newsweek. Burger has pretty much said it all. What I would like to know is why, when a Western magazine reports on Western people flushing Korans in toilets thousands of kilometers from the nearest Moslem country, Moslems on the other side of the world have a huge riot and kill 15 of their own countrymen?

If this is a normal phenomenon (every time a Western magazine reports some desecration of the Koran somewhere some Moslems somewhere kill each other) I shudder to think what kind of ideas this might give to some people.

There were no riots of plumbers reported anywhere in connection with the incident.