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In Palestine a terrified Christian community has seen 8 local churches bombed. An elderly nun has been murdered in Somalia.

The New York Times has more:

Al-Qaida in Iraq warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that its war against Christianity and the West will go on until Islam takes over the world, and Iran's supreme leader called for more protests over the pontiff's remarks on Islam.

Protests broke out in South Asia and Indonesia, with angry Muslims saying Benedict's statement of regret a day earlier did not go far enough. In southern Iraq, demonstrators carrying black flags burned an effigy of the pope.

All this because the Pope quoted a passage hostile to Islam in a recent speech.

Or if you take my view, all this because Islamic fundamentalists are eager to seize on any perceived offense as an excuse to rile up whoever can be riled.

I post this here because different media are making different choices about the images they show their audiences to cover this story.

The New York Times shows a crowd in Iraq burning Pope Benedict in effigy.

The BBC offers a slide show.

Their images, while disturbing, are perhaps topped by those that Michelle Malkin has posted for her readers here andhere.

Little Green Footballs posted photos here.

Meanwhile Breitbart.com chose this rather tame wire photograph for its readers.

Allow me to pose a question that might not have a correct answer: among these various treatments (or any other you can find) which best communicates the reality of events to readers?