At least, it says as much in the headline:

Eleven people-including several officials of the United Nations-were killed in Afghanistan today, and ABC News is reporting the killings may have been motivated by the burning of a Koran by Florida pastor Terry Jones.

Jones is the Gainesville, Florida pastor who made headlines for his plans to burn a Koran last September in protest of the planned Muslim community center near Ground Zero.

Last month, Jones presided over a “trial” which found the Koran “guilty,” and another pastor soaked the book in kerosene and set it on fire. The Afghanistan killings followed a protest march against Jones in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif. According to ABC News, “among the dead were U.N. staff and security guards who were trying to protect the staff.”

For his part, Jones has expressed no remorse …

ABC’s headline wasn’t much different.

Terry Jones must have the longest arms of anyone on the planet to have been able to reach all the way to Afghanistan from Florida. Dude apparently had his Wheaties that morning because after burning the Koran, he Go-Go-Gadgeted his arms halfway around the world and riled up a completely peaceful protest of totally peaceful people. His arms then apparently took knives from the peaceful protesters and thumbed it to the Afghan UN office where he stabbed and beheaded people. Why? What motive? Stop asking silly questions.

Is there a finder’s fee associated with turning stuff like this into the “Guinness Book of World Records?”

The above vignette is the only reason I can infer why neither outlet said much, if anything about the protesters killing the victims.

Is anyone else tired of the OUTRAGE! that zealous communities like these exhibit anytime anything remotely controversial occurs involving their religion? So someone burned your holy book. Someone put Christ in a jar of urine and called it “art.” Did you see any headlines like “Remedial Hipster Art Students Beheaded?” No, no you didn’t. Of course, these communities have OUTRAGE! if someone so much as draws their god.

So, pray tell, who burned the Koran that resulted in 9/11? Who burned the Koran that caused the USS Cole bombing? Pan Am Flight 103? Embassy bombings? Fort Hood? The snipers in Washington, D.C?

Are people too scared to say that a group of violent people, looking to perpetuate violence on anyone and will use any incident as a crutch to do so, are responsible for their own actions, thus these deaths? Are people too afraid of looking like bigots (that and “racist” are the new terms to describe anyone who disagrees with left-leaning ideology, replacing “dissenter”) or are they afraid that said group of people will enact the same crime upon them as was done to the victims in this story?

Don’t we have a stop bullying campaign going on in this country right now? Aren’t we trying to tell kids that “it gets better” and to stand up for themselves? When will we start?