Saudi Arabia condemns ‘offensive’ French cartoons amid growing boycott calls

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned French cartoons that they branded offensive to the Prophet Mohammed and rejected any link between Islam and terrorism amid calls to boycott French goods over the matter. An official at the Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry condemned all acts of terrorism in an apparent reference to the recent beheading of a teacher in Paris this month by an extremist angered by the use of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a class on freedom of expression. "Freedom of expression and culture should be a beacon of...