Nice spin attempt. Saying someone "asked for it" is condoning it. When you condone something, you excuse or "justify" it. Is English your first language?
Condoning would be to approve the behaviour. I do not. I expect the people concerned to be arrested and treated by the law. Who those people are we do not yet know. They may not even be Muslims.
Would you have felt differently if innocent people were killed in that building or in that neighborhood?
If people had been killed I would have felt for them yes, I would certainly have felt sad at the loss of life but my view on this having been asked for would not have changed.
It was asked for in just the same way as the Danish cartoons were released to cause a reaction from Muslims. It is very easy to show how this is true.
First they are offered Jesus cartoons, which according to their artist were not all that extreme, just a joke. The kind his grandfather would have laughed at, he said. He had already shown them to a Pastor who also found them funny. This was not the case though with the Danish paper which published the Mohammed cartoons. What they thought of the Jesus cartoons was
"I don't think Jyllands-Posten's readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them."
Danish paper rejected Jesus cartoons | Media | MediaGuardian
So what we have is a Danish paper offered cartoons of Jesus which were not greatly offensive and refusing to publish them because
they thought they would provoke an outcry and then we have the very same paper hiring a cartoonist to create intensely offensive cartoons of Mohamed.
Clearly having been offered and turned down the Jesus ones because they believed they would cause an outcry gave them the very idea of doing this with Mohammed, in full expectation and desire of an outcry. In other words asking for an outcry.
You can see Philippe Val's involvement with this here
Philippe Val - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What you have here is double standards. People getting all high and mighty about people being offended by the most grotesque insult to Mohammed while not being prepared to risk the rile of Christians with even moderately offensive Jesus ones.
Here you have people whose very motivation it would appear was to cause a Muslim outcry.
I hear their insurance agency is furious they were given insurance. Cannot say I am surprised. If you ask for something, don't expect sympathy when you get it.
It is to be thanked no loss of life resulted from this malarkey.