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."
Well, never mind that none of the so-called scholars manning the upper ranks of the religious outfit can speak or read a word of English.
But their experts who examined the English word "explorer" were struck by how suspicious that "X" appeared.
http://www.nysun.com/article/46707
On a side note, there is reportedly an Islamic sect in Arizona, USA, which lost their spiritual leader about seven or eight years ago to an alleged assassination by a Saudi linked Wahabbist group.
Ever since, their mission is apparently to gather strength and declare war on all religions, on all sects or variations of them, even Islamic ones - except their own version.
Any wonder we face madness and death in Iraq or Iran?
Hats off to the commandos who arrested Abbasi and his cohorts in Irbil.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I'm concerned, when the U.S. is through interrogating Abassi, they should hand the bastard over to Israel so he can be exchanged for Ron Arad (Israeli pilot currently held by the IRGC) and the two Israeli soldiers being held by Hizbullah on behalf of the Mullahs.