Two men far more learned than I — Fox News’s George Russell and Dow Jones’s Gordon Crovitz — independently came up to me tonight with the identical perfect parallel for Newsweek’s riot-inducing rumermongering about flushing Korans down toilets. It is, they both said, the contemporary version of the “Sepoy Rebellion” — a riot among native-born soldiers in India in 1857 that was fomented by crazed rumormongering about how the grease used on the cartridges for British Enfield rifles was made of pig and cow fat. This was an immensely complex and confusing incident, and the most revealing quick hit I could find about it on the web is here.