Silverspear,
my family is also..ahem..oriented towards the middle east, not so far from your country, perhaps just south of where you are situated
I also did middle east studies in uni, so I'll have some credibility there too, thanks.
I think you are wrong.
I see a lot of piss poor people, where most can't read, have no money, no job or bad job, no or bad school, children of dictatorship, never lived in a real democracy, no future, no hope... make a riot out of anything. Oh, are they muslim? Ok, I guess they're that, too. Most arabs are, after all. But more than anything, they're poor and oppressed.
In my country (even in my town), and most european countries, there seem to be three groups of muslims at the moment:
1) The ones who do not voice anything about this matter in public (the big majority)
2) The religious who voice peaceful and compelling complaints (your usual mosque crowd)
3) The violent protesters (a small gang)
Interestingly, group 2 is totally identical in rhetorics to the organisations and people labouring for christian or jewish values. It's all peaceful and sensible and just occationally do they have to say that homosexuality is a sin and abortion will send you to hell.
Group 1 is like the rest of Norway except a better tan.
Group 3 are identical to the crowd protesting in the middle east. Dropped out of school, got involved with crime, maybe don't know the language.. no future, no hope. Same problems, different place.
So before everone stops insulting anyone, please take a look at who is on the barricades and why? I agree that the film is totally idiotic and stupid but it was made for one purpose only and that was to trigger the poor and miserable in the arab countries. Like in every other country, their complete lack of education makes them very easy to sway either way. Societies where honour and religion substitute dignity are not competitive on this planet since the late 1800s.
I don't know how things developed but apparently in Indonesia there were only peaceful protests last I heard.