I am sure that the media outlets in the rest of the world are as reliable as the one in the US and that some people in other nations are as susceptible to misinformation as Americans are.
The ones that went off more than likely heard a blown out of proportion story and believed it.I mean just listen to what you can hear people say in passing conversations about any given world event it is amazing how it becomes a game of "telephone" (that game where someone says something in one persons ear it then goes from person to the next around the room it it never ends in the same wording as it started).
The rioters probably heard some story about the American military having trained monkeys who went around grabbing Qurans crapping on their pages and then setting them alight with Zippo lighters.In the story they heard the Taliban PWs where writing poems about walking in fields picking daisies and planting IEBs Improvised Emotional Bouquets.
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