Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X'?

[DurkaDurka]

Beheadings must be out of season I guess.

Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X'?

By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
January 15, 2007


The letter "X" soon may be banned in Saudi Arabia because it resembles the mother of all banned religious symbols in the oil kingdom: the cross.
The new development came with the issuing of another mind-bending fatwa, or religious edict, by the infamous Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice — the group of senior Islamic clergy that reigns supreme on all legal, civil, and governance matters in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The commission's damning of the letter "X" came in response to a Ministry of Trade query about whether it should grant trademark protection to a Saudi businessman for a new service carrying the English name "Explorer."



Continued http://www.nysun.com/article/46707

 

[Colpy]

Beheadings must be out of season I guess.

Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X'?

By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
January 15, 2007


The letter "X" soon may be banned in Saudi Arabia because it resembles the mother of all banned religious symbols in the oil kingdom: the cross.
The new development came with the issuing of another mind-bending fatwa, or religious edict, by the infamous Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice — the group of senior Islamic clergy that reigns supreme on all legal, civil, and governance matters in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The commission's damning of the letter "X" came in response to a Ministry of Trade query about whether it should grant trademark protection to a Saudi businessman for a new service carrying the English name "Explorer."



Continued http://www.nysun.com/article/46707

Perhaps they would prefer the new service "Explorer" change its name to something similar that didn't include an "x"......something like


CRUSADER

I kinda like it.

 

[hermanntrude]

i hope they do ban it. I expect it'll be a lot of trouble for them. anyone that wants to be so awkward is welcome to do it to themselves

do you remember "brave new world" by aldous huxley? all the crosses in england had had their tops chopped off to make them into T's to celebrate the model T ford.

 

[Toro]

If they ban the letter X, how are the royal family going to sign their names?

Or describe their call girls?

 

[MikeyDB]

Toro

Signing their names isn't nearly as tough for them as knowing who dad was so they have some name to go by....

 

[Toro]

Toro

Signing their names isn't nearly as tough for them as knowing who dad was so they have some name to go by....

I didn't know they played in the NBA!

 

[MikeyDB]

Kareem Abdul Jabar....

 

[MikeyDB]

Just kidding Abdul was born in New York....

It was Larry El Bird I was thinking of...