You could power a small city for at least a decade if you could harness the endless outrage from these Mohammed cartoons.

(Express Tribune) — The attack on a Telenor franchise outlet in Karachi that left two people dead on December 23 appears at first to be a crime without a motive. The two gunmen did not demand any money or goods, nor did they seem to be targeting any particular employee. With all the usual reasons for such an attack ruled out, the crime may have been spurred, theorised the police, by ideological reasons. The franchise is linked to a Norwegian company, and newspapers in Norway had re-published the controversial cartoons, which originally appeared in a Danish newspaper.

The connection may be a tenuous one but it takes very little to spark religiously-inspired crimes in Pakistan, as the original protests against the cartoons back in 2005 showed. The spree of attacks inspired by the cartoons include the bombing of the Danish embassy in Islamabad in 2008, a letter bomb being sent to a hotel in Copenhagen in 2010 and about 100 deaths in the Muslim world attributed to riots.