Issandr El Amrani (of Arabist.net) on Egypt and the "angry young men vs. police" sport:

Walls of Shame
By ISSANDR EL AMRANI, Latitude @ International Tribune, September 20

CAIRO —[....]

Though the outrage over a “film” disparaging the Prophet Muhammad [....] remains very much alive, many Cairenes have rejected the protests that lasted for several days last week outside the U.S. Embassy.

Conversations with ordinary people, as well as the opinion pages of the major local newspapers, reveal both indignation over the film and embarrassment over the small yet intense protests it sparked. Part of this feeling comes from protest-fatigue; part of it from discomfiture that a small crowd of young rioters is being magnified on television screens as a major riot. This was not Benghazi or Sana, after all: after the first day a few hundred participated at most.

The protests outside the U.S. Embassy were sustained in good part by angry young men (and often boys) for whom fighting the police has become a favorite sport over the past year of clashes. Eyewitnesses report seeing soccer fans and young radicals among them, which may explain why, amid the religious slogans graffitied on the walls of the embassy, are the initials “A.C.A.B.” This is the universal call sign of a transnational group of soccer fanatics known as Ultras, and it means “All Cops Are Bastards.”[....]

And there’s the matter of the double standard that is created when a sheikh who burned a Bible — rather perplexingly, since Muslims consider it a holy book — is free whereas Christians who insult Islam face immediate backlash [....]

PM House, ANP disown minister’s statement: Bilour in the soup over bounty

By Zulfiqar Ali and Khawar Ghumman, Dawn newspaper (Pakistan,) 6 hours ago

PESHAWAR / ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: The Prime Minister’s Office and the ANP disassociated themselves on Sunday from a bounty offered by Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour for anyone who kills the producer of an anti-Islam film [....]
 

Also at Dawn.com:

PM condemns bounty on anti-Islam filmmaker: spokesman, 22 hours ago