[BlackVeil]

This is a rather belated reply to the article you posted, about the "blood libel" against the Jews from the Saudi cleric. It is very extremist stuff. No doubt one should keep an eye on hate speech, but I think it needs to be said that this guy is obviously a fringe thinker. Such views are marginal in the Middle East. He is sort of what "Christian Identity" is to real churches. A more influential view of Muslim thinking on Jewish food laws can be found on this site. (Link posted below). I offer this site because these are hard-line, quite fundamentalist Islamic clerics (not liberals) who apply the food rules very legalistically. However they also make refence to Jewish rules, and respect Kosher certification. In some of the halal questions, they cite Rabbis opinions and respectfully defer to them. http://www.albalagh.net/halal/col4.shtml

[FreedomPoster]

Such views are marginal in the Middle East.

This is not at all clear to a thinking reader. The Middle Eastern / Arab press is all controlled by their governments to some degree. There is not a 1st Amendment, nor a rough-and-tumble free exchange of ideas in a land where saying the wrong thing can get a fatwah pronounced against you. Anything that is said, the government can be said to at least tacitly approve. Finally, we see results of the recent survey showing large numbers of Islamics don't believe that Arabs committed the atrocities of 9/11.

So, I do not take statements like, "Such views are marginal in the Middle East", at face value. It seems all too likely that they might be believed by a significant percentage of the population.