How many times has a video game caused riots in the streets, resulting in death? Not a one. There have been a few cases of 'the game (or Twinkies) made me do it' defenses in murder trials, but not one has been credible. The cause of these riots is the Newsweek story (as the riots were not occurring prior to this on this issue, so this is a case of mass hysteria caused by unbelievably stupid reporting), now shown to be bogus. The rioters are calling for the death of those 'responsible' for the desecration of the Queer'an; desecration that didn't occur as reported. Granting that these rioters were seeking a reason to kill people, how does that exonerate the 'reporters' that didn't fact check a story that they knew would inflame passions of the Arab 'street'? It doesn't.
See my previous post. And think much more abstractly. ;-)