Good news about horrible news?

[Tev]

I'm not really sure where to put this thread as it is really about an Onion article taking a jab at the current real news about the recent Middle East uprisings over a crappy Youtube video "movie" that lead to the tragic deaths of our Libyan Ambassador and a few of his guards this week. I'm really surprised that news doesn't have it's own thready by now, but since it doesn't, you can talk about it here too I guess.

Anyway, good news from the Onion (Redacted picture below totally not safe for work!)

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WASHINGTON—Following the publication of the image above, in which the most cherished figures from multiple religious faiths were depicted engaging in a lascivious sex act of considerable depravity, no one was murdered, beaten, or had their lives threatened, sources reported Thursday. The image of the Hebrew prophet Moses high-fiving Jesus Christ as both are having their erect penises vigorously masturbated by Ganesha, all while the Hindu deity anally penetrates Buddha with his fist, reportedly went online at 6:45 p.m. EDT, after which not a single bomb threat was made against the organization responsible, nor did the person who created the cartoon go home fearing for his life in any way. Though some members of the Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist faiths were reportedly offended by the image, sources confirmed that upon seeing it, they simply shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and continued on with their day.

While I am aware that the latest crop of uprisings is either just a very small cross section of fundamentalists getting out of hand or a cover for actual terrorist activities, and that, if I looked hard enough, I could find a few hundred equally destructive fundamentalist Christians here in America, I just don't understand why people get so up in arms and destructive over stuff like this. Maybe it's just that I've grown up in a country that holds the illusion of free speech so well?