Which is totally unlike the banning of French Fries...
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian <mailto:cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:06 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Discrimination: Brought to you by the letter X
The letter "X" <http://www.nysun.com/article/46707> may soon be
banned from Saudi Arabia after the country's Commission for the
Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice ruled against Amru
Mohammad Faisal, a Saudi businessman who asked to trademark the
English name "Explorer" for a service he was providing. The
commission nixed the name because religious experts deemed the
letter "X" suspiciously similar to a cross. Faisal mocked the
commission in a newspaper article, wondering if they were going to
ban the plus sign in mathematics, in order "to prevent filthy
Christian conspiracies from infiltrating our thoughts, our
beliefs, and our feelings."
