Simply because "They never occurred."

(...) Christians, Jews, and Buddhists don't lash out in homicidal rage when their religion is insulted. They don't call for holy war and riot in the streets. It would be unthinkable for a mainstream priest, rabbi, or lama to demand that a blasphemer be slain. But when Reuters reported what Mohammad Hanif, the imam of a Muslim seminary in Pakistan, said about the alleged Koran-flushers -- ''They should be hung. They should be killed in public so that no one can dare to insult Islam and its sacred symbols" -- was any reader surprised?

Well, were you? Of course not, because we've all learned by now that the diatribe of hatred and riots that occured as a result of the excuse provided by the Newsweek story on the koran, was simply "Muslims doing what Muslims do!"

What non-Muslims know that Muslims(and the Islamic culture) fail to understand, is that "decent people do not resort to murder just because someone has offended their religious sensibilities." As suggested by Jeff Jacoby in his piece, the primitive bloodlust raging in Afghanistan and Pakistan was evidence of the Muslim world's dysfunctional political culture.

And in the midst of all of the fallout from the Newsweek article, "from the White House down, the magazine was slammed -- for running an item it should have known might prove incendiary, for relying on a shaky source, for its animus toward the military and the war. Over and over, Newsweek was blamed for the riots' death toll. Conservative pundits in particular piled on. ''Newsweek lied, people died" was the headline on Michelle Malkin's popular website. At NationalReview.com, Paul Marshall of Freedom House fumed: ''What planet do these [Newsweek] people live on? Anybody with a little knowledge could have told them it was likely that people would die as a result of the article." All of Marshall's choler was reserved for Newsweek; he had no criticism at all for the marauders in the Muslim street."

But not all pundits gave the Islamists a pass! In my post(in which I referred to an earlier one) on May 17, "The Gorilla In The Living Room: Toilet Flushing And Other Insane Reasons To Commit Murder," I wrote that I was probably the only one that considered what had happened across the Muslim world over the past few days, to be the tantrums of a sick culture.

My focus in the post was focused on the need for Muslim reform and the fact that the real story in the Newsweek fiasco, the 800 pound gorilla(really big gorilla) in the living room, was not Newsweek's stupid mistake and escape from journalistic standards and reason, but the reaction of the Muslim world to the Newsweek article. I wrote that as bloggers and other pundits continue to pound on "News-Weak, why wasn't more written on the absurd and inappropriate behavior of the Muslim world? I asked just when did flushing a book down or in a toilet, even if true which it wasn't(sourced to be true), holy or otherwise, rate commiting murder? I asked where the uproar was over Mulsim culpability and responsibility? I asked why everyone wasn't screaming about the insane madness of the Muslim world's completely inappropriate and disproportionate response to the story? I suggested that completely missing from our posts and articles was the element of moral judgement. "To kill people thousands of miles away who had nothing to do with the act, and the fulminate with threats and murder against the entire Western world, all because of the alleged act, was not just disproportionate. It was not just excessive. It is madness.

This takes us to what in fact the Muslims of the world should be hearing instead of comments such as those of Condoleesa Rice - that "''disrespect for the Holy Koran is not now, nor has it ever been, nor will it ever be, tolerated by the United States." Hell no!

As Jeff Jacoby offers in his article:

(...) "what 'Muslims in America and throughout the world" most need to hear is not pandering sweet-talk. What they need is a blunt reminder that the real desecration of Islam is not what some interrogator in Guantanamo might have done to the Koran. It is what totalitarian Muslim zealots have been doing to innocent human beings in the name of Islam. It is 9/11 and Beslan and Bali and Daniel Pearl and the USS Cole. It is trains in Madrid and schoolbuses in Israel and an ''insurgency" in Iraq that slaughters Muslims as they pray and vote and line up for work. It is Hamas and Al Qaeda and sermons filled with infidel-hatred and exhortations to ''martyrdom.""

So, yes, Islam is disrespected. And "that will only change when throngs of passionate Muslims show up for rallies against terrorism, and when rabble-rousers trying to gin up a riot over a defiled Koran can't get the time of day."

Meanwhile, the media, including bloggers, are doing the Western world, and even moderate Muslims, an enormous disservice. The reaction to the Newsweek story in the Muslim world only shows how critical it is that the elements of Islam that give rise to fanaticism and violence be examined and confronted. Lives are at stake. All of us "citizen journalists" and MSM "professional" journalists need to step out of the mold; the real story has nothing to do with media bias.

Media bias has always been there, is there, and probably will always be there. It's just an excuse, if it hadn't been the toilet it would have been something else. The real cupablility remains squarely in the lap of Islam. The real desecration of the Koran or of Islam is not at the hands of guards in Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib, or in books and articles written by concerned citizens and journalists, folks that sense the great dangers that we all face from pandering to Islam. The real desecration of Islam is "what totalitarian Muslim zealots have been doing to innocent human beings in the name of Islam. It is 9/11 and Beslan and Bali and Daniel Pearl and the USS Cole. It is trains in Madrid and schoolbuses in Israel and an ''insurgency" in Iraq that slaughters Muslims as they pray and vote and line up for work. It is Hamas and Al Qaeda and sermons filled with infidel-hatred and exhortations to ''martyrdom.""

Don't you think that it's about time that we all wake up to this while we still have the right to free speech, the right to practice our own non-Muslim faith, the right to write about and criticize the acts of Islamists and judges who threaten our freedoms, and the ability to go to a mall or church without the threat of being killed by a suicide bomber?

It's time that Islam woke up and joined the world, started thinking and acting like rational human beings instead of violent, mindless, thugs, and moderate Muslims decided whether or not they wish to live in a civilized world or one that's like living like animals in the stone age.

Hat tip(for source article) - Drink This

Other coverage - Jawa Report, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

Also, Wizbang covers the Oriani Fallaci story and other Islam-related so-called "defamations":

"In Italy, noted author (and dying cancer victim) Oriana Fallacci is facing trial on criminal charges. Her offense: writing a book that "defames Islam." The specific charges of defamation are spelled out here. In Europe, a noted politician (Pym Fortuyn) and a noted filmmaker (Theo Van Gogh) have been murdered, and a noted author (Salman Rushdie) lives under a death sentence. Their offenses: "defaming Islam." Others have noted the consequences of speaking their minds, and have learned the wisdom of shutting up instead of challenging the Islamic mobs.""