(Reuters/Washington Post) Per Bech Thomsen - For years, Scandinavian countries have been among the most generous with aid to the Muslim world, but that generosity has stood for little in the scandal over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Norway and Sweden are the top single donors of aid to the Palestinians after the U.S. The Danish paper Jyllands-Posten commissioned the cartoons for a debate on whether it was acceptable to censor the media to avoid offending Muslims, thereby giving Muslims special treatment.
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