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Bubbalicious
01-15-2007, 04:36 PM
Idiots

Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X'? (http://www.nysun.com/article/46707)

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."

"No! Nein! Nyet!" was the commission's categorical answer.

Why?

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. In a kingdom where Friday preachers routinely refer to Christians as pigs and infidel crusaders, even a twisted cross ranks as an abomination.

So after waiting a year, the Saudi businessman, Amru Mohammad Faisal, got his answer: No. But, like so many other Saudi businessmen who suffer from the travesties of the commission, he seemed more baffled than angry. He wrote letters to Saudi newspapers to criticize the cockamamie logic. An article he wrote appeared with his photograph on some Arabian Web sites. It sarcastically invited the commission to expand its edict to the "plus" sign in mathematics and accounting, in order "to prevent filthy Christian conspiracies from infiltrating our thoughts, our beliefs, and our feelings."

This would have been funny had it not been so sinister.

The Saudi commission has shaped life and death: declared jihad against Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, banished women from public life, and forced piety at the tip of the whip and the sword. Its edicts have hindered business, education, travel, women's rights, and life itself, creating a fertile ground for terrorism and producing the 15 Saudis who participated in the September 11, 2001, attacks — and many others like them.

Among the commission's deeds is the famed 1974 fatwa — issued by its blind leader at the time, Sheik Abdul Aziz Ben Baz — which declared that the Earth was flat and immobile. In a book issued by the Islamic University of Medina, the sheik argued: "If the earth is rotating, as they claim, the countries, the mountains, the trees, the rivers, and the oceans will have no bottom." Another bright light of the commission, Sheik Abdel-Aziz al-Sheikh, recently stopped a government reform proposal aimed at creating work for women by allowing them to replace male sales clerks in women's clothing stores. Sheik al-Sheikh damned the idea, saying it was a step "towards immorality and hellfire." The underlying logic is breathtaking: Women are more protected by buying their knickers from men! Over the years, the commission has rendered Saudi Arabia a true kingdom of darkness. Movie theaters are banned, as are sculptures, paintings, and music, and the mixing of sexes in public.

The commission really has it in for women. They must don the all-enveloping veil, or niqab, in public; they cannot drive themselves nor ride anywhere without a male guardian, and they cannot travel alone domestically or abroad.

The commission also excels at banning the construction of houses of worship — other than mosques — even though the majority of the 8 million expatriates working in the kingdom come from Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist faiths. Indeed, celebrating a private Sunday Mass inside a home could lead to jail, public lashings, and expulsion.

One of the most criminal travesties committed by the commission's foot soldiers, the Mutawaeen, or religious police, was dramatically reported by the muzzled Saudi press itself on Friday, March 15, 2002, when the Mutawaeen forcibly prevented girls fleeing a burning school from leaving the building because they were "improperly dressed."

The day after, the Saudi Gazette newspaper quoted witnesses as saying the police stopped men who tried to help the girls, warning the men: "It is sinful to approach them."

Of the 800 teenage pupils in Mecca, 15 burned to death and more than 50 were injured. Yet, the commission and its royal enablers thrive.

5stringJeff
01-15-2007, 04:44 PM
I guess that means no wishing people a "Merry Xmas" in Saudi Arabia any more! :D

Gaffer
01-15-2007, 04:55 PM
They really do live in the 7th century.

Bubbalicious
01-15-2007, 06:04 PM
I guess that means no wishing people a "Merry Xmas" in Saudi Arabia any more! :D

The Sauds started the 'War on Xmas' Xtra early this year.

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but seriously, folks...

Gaffer
01-16-2007, 03:01 AM
What they call xrays?

who's ne t

Don't get e cited

please e plian

just rela

things could get confusing without the x.

avatar4321
01-16-2007, 05:55 AM
You know, I have nothing personal against muslims, just the ones trying to kill me and my friends and family. And Ive heard many people claim Islam is the fastest growing religion. But seriously, when you have Islamic governments making such ridiculous laws and banning other faiths so drastically, is it any suprise that islam is supposedly "growing" within these other countries. People don't have a choice.

Any religion that cant handle dissent, cannot be true.

KarlMarx
01-16-2007, 06:31 AM
I guess this means you won't be able to play tic tac toe in Arabia

To retaliate, I think we should ban the letter "C", it looks too much like a crescent (and while we're at it, let's put pressure on Craftsman Tools to discontinue crescent wrenches and Pillsbury to discontinue crescent rolls)

We also should ban the mention of the name Mohammed, too. Instead we should replace all references to him with "that flea bitten camel jockey from the 5th century".

Seriously, why would they care? After all, the Muslims claim that they share the same beliefs as Christians and Jews, so what's not to like? How is it that showing a cross poses such a grave threat? Are they afarid someone might convert?

Remember how many millions of people converted to Islam when Disney released "Aladdin" a few years back? Exactly, just my point.

I guess they're just more honest their paranoia than the ACLU and the atheists who sue over crucifixes and posting of the Ten Commandments.

Bubbalicious
01-16-2007, 11:38 AM
Or we could write the Sauds off and get our oil from Russia until they screw their heads on straight.
I don't get why the U.S. is so chummy with these backwards wifebeaters.

dirt mcgirt
01-16-2007, 11:51 AM
How come the "x" is too cross-like but the letter "t" isn't? Someone needs to tell the Saudis that engaging in selective alphabetical discrimination is unfair. We should suspend relations until they can recognize all the other cross-like letters equally.

Bubbalicious
01-16-2007, 12:19 PM
How come the "x" is too cross-like but the letter "t" isn't? Someone needs to tell the Saudis that engaging in selective alphabetical discrimination is unfair. We should suspend relations until they can recognize all the other cross-like letters equally.

They must not know about the "t." Let's not tell them.
The guy who couldn't get approval on the 'Explorer' logo was making fun of them saying they have to ban the plus sign (+) too.
Come to think of it I think the Arabics even invented the plus sign.
But no matter. It looks somewhat crossish so out it goes.

Gaffer
01-16-2007, 12:42 PM
We also should ban the mention of the name Mohammed, too. Instead we should replace all references to him with "that flea bitten camel jockey from the 5th century".



I like that idea. :pee: mohamad

TheSage
05-12-2007, 11:43 AM
"But but ... the saudis are our allies!" :lame2:

You believe this neocon lie and I know of some swamp land in florida you may be interested in.

TheSage
05-12-2007, 11:46 AM
You know, I have nothing personal against muslims, just the ones trying to kill me and my friends and family. And Ive heard many people claim Islam is the fastest growing religion. But seriously, when you have Islamic governments making such ridiculous laws and banning other faiths so drastically, is it any suprise that islam is supposedly "growing" within these other countries. People don't have a choice.

Any religion that cant handle dissent, cannot be true.

Jesus was a rebel.

How do you feel about that one?:poke:

theHawk
05-14-2007, 08:34 AM
I don't get why the U.S. is so chummy with these backwards wifebeaters.


You answered your own question.....oil.

Hagbard Celine
05-14-2007, 08:42 AM
The letter "C" kind of looks like a crescent moon. Maybe we should ban the letter "C." It's not like anyone would miss it. I mean we've still got the letter "S" and the letter "K." :rolleyes:

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." -Anonymous.

glockmail
05-14-2007, 09:56 AM
What they call xrays?

who's ne t

Don't get e cited

please e plian

just rela

things could get confusing without the x.


How does anyone have se ?

KarlMarx
05-14-2007, 12:06 PM
Old Mohammed has a harem
E I E I Oh!
And Mohammed sure is vexed
E I E I Oh!
Cause they banned the letter X
E I E I Oh!
Now he can't have any sex
E I E I Oh!


(sung to the tune of "seventy six trombones")
Seventy-two Virgins up in Paradise
With a jihadi martyr close at hand.
But he's sad don't you know
Cause his Johnson is no mo'
He lost it when he blew up that plane!

Gaffer
05-14-2007, 05:42 PM
:lol: :clap: :clap: :clap: