Keith,

What is "Arab nationality"?
Most Muslim countries from the 9th centurty onwards had trade & commerce activities managed & run by Jews/ Jewish tribes. Jewish suburbs in Muslim countries is where all people went for trade and commerce.

Take the Ayoubi & fatemite eras for example. Most physicians, doctors and merchants were Jews and Assyrians. The Minister (ie prime Minister level) was usually an Orthodox Christian (since most arabs were Orthodox Christians).

Surely, that's a loaded question from Kieth.

Why say that Islam lost its emphasis on scholarship and advancement in the years since 1100? The Turks and Monguls took control politically, however these peoples were converted. The Blue Mosque in Istanbul (c.1600) comes to mind.

KRS
In and of themselves, they are not a comment on any issue rekated to the news. The massive interantional row only happened after they were gratuitously published.
There value is not inherent. Newspapers don't publish everything that they discover or come across. They have editorial values to work out what justifies publication and what does not.
If there was a cartoon that criticised any religion for its effect on public policy or srgument though, that would be valuable and worthy of publishing.

Hi all

Just thought that you needed some greetings from little old Denmark. Well Mary and the baby is doing just fine, don´t know what that naughty boy Frederik is up to.

I see you´re talking about the cartoons of some Ahmed or Ali. Well, never met him.

Have a nice day.

Finn/Copenhagen