This is nuts:

MULTAN, Pakistan (AFX) – The Pakistan Medical Association has vowed not to prescribe medicines from firms based in some European countries where controversial cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed were published, said Shahid Rao, the body’s general secretary for Punjab province.

The association will boycott drugs from Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Germany and France to protest the ‘blasphemous’ drawings, Rao said.

‘We have taken a unanimous decision and it will be immediately implemented in Pakistan,’ Rao told AFP.

‘Doctors in the country are very motivated on this issue,’ he said. ‘We would use alternate medicines in future till a public apology comes from these countries.’

Pharmacists have also vowed not to sell such medicines, Rao said.

The association is advising patients against using medicines from the offending countries if they are mistakenly prescribed by doctors, he added.

Readers B. Gunn and Lynne S. are on the same wavelength:

B.G.: “Just a comment from an humble Texas rancher: Don’t you reckon that any such boycott will be cut short immediately if the bird flu breaks out in Pakistan or any other Middle Eastern Country?”

L.S.: “Roche, from Switzerland, should, in turn, deny Tamiflu to all these Muslim countries that boycott Europe if a bird flu hits.”

Reader Shae M. adds:

“Now, if in addition to boycotting life saving medicines from Europe, we can just get them to boycott using cell phone, timers, and other western devices that they use to do other things…”