[lit-ideas] Re: Discrimination: Brought to you by the letter X
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:51:53 -0000
Which is totally unlike the banning of French Fries...
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From: Brian
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Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:06 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Discrimination: Brought to you by the letter X
The letter "X" 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."
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