Protests Over Lack of Publicity of Horrible Crime

Mahmoud El-Yousseph, a local Muslim activist, with whom I am on friendly terms but with whom I frequently disagree, has contacted me about the case of Marwa El-Sherbini who was the victim of a despicable murder that actually occurred inside a courtroom in Dresden, Germany.according to the UK Guardian:

Unemployed Alex W. from Perm in Russia was found guilty last November of insulting and abusing Sherbini, screaming "terrorist" and "Islamist whore" at her, during the Dresden park encounter. He was fined ¤780 but had appealed the verdict, which is why he and Sherbini appeared face to face in court again.

During her testimony in court, "Alex W." (who is oddly not identified in the article with his actual last name) strode across the courtroom and stabbed her 18 times. Her three-year-old son was present in the courtroom as was her husband. Apparently her husband was shot trying to save her when the court security officer mistook him for another attacker. There seems no question that Alex W. was motivated by anti-Muslim animus. The guy deserves the death penalty if they even have that penalty in Germany (which I doubt).

Mahmoud complains about the lack of international publicity over this horrific case. Of course, there are "street protests" (riots?) in Egypt, because the case is not getting enough international publicity. (They seem to have an awful lot of street protests over there. Maybe because they don't have American Idol to watch at night.) There was no rioting in Egypt or anywhere else when the persecution of Coptic Christians routinely get little international publicity either. See here and here.

To me the only reason that new media would want to give this horrible case more publicity is (1) the incredibly bad security in the German court that allowed it to happen; (2) the pubic interest in the awful and tragic circumstances and the true rarity of violence against Muslims for their religion, as opposed to the far more common violence in the other direction. Dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is news. (No., I am not calling this poor victim and her husband dogs. "Man bites dog" is a commonly states, time-honored test of newsworthiness.)

So why the street protests? Isn't Germany going to the prosecute the guy? Of course it is. It seems to me that the street protests are a supremacy thing.

Update:There is an interesting series of articles on the moderately left-wing Harry's Place about differences in reporting of Muslim terrorists versus non-Muslim terrorists.