[ChessExpert]

Did you want the Jewish person to acknowledge your holiday? Did you want them to thank you for being such a great person?

Next time a Muslim person gives a gift in honor of the prophet Muhammad you sure as shooting better accept it or you too will be deemed ungrateful.

If I were in a Muslim country and was given a gift in "good faith," I would try to accept it gracefully. It is not likely that I would be confused with an Arab. Of course, if I could pass, then there would be even less reason to take offense. Why shouldn't that thinking apply here?

[poinq]

I would accept such a gift no matter what country I was in. And if I liked and respected the person I would accept the gift regardless of the religion. (I think you can go to some wild extremes here. But most religions I know.)