On Thursday July 3, 2014, the Jakarta Post, an English-language paper with a circulation of around 40,000, published a cartoon in its daily print edition. It was a few days into the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, one month after the self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ had taken the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Fallujah, and one day after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State, had vowed that his Islamic caliphate would lead a conquest of Rome.