By DONNA ABU-NASR, Associated Press Writer
The article goes on about how people are upset at a show that makes fun of islam... it shows how insane the religious fanatics are but at then end of the article comes this...
In Saudi Arabia, it’s not just TV shows that run afoul of the religious establishment. The kingdom regulates even the tiniest aspect of life in its role as the birthplace of Islam. For instance, the Commission for the Protection of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice — the formal name of the religious police — prevented one Saudi prince who owns a factory from registering the brand name of a new product because the commission didn’t like its name, Explorer. The prince, Amr Mohammed Al-Faisal, reacted caustically in the Arab News. "The learned scholars of the commission rightly noted that the letter X in the name was a cross, and this aroused their delicate Islamic sensibilities," the prince wrote. "I am greatly relieved that thanks to the vigilance of the commission a great tragedy was avoided," he said. "Until then I had innocently and, I must admit, naively assumed that the letter X was just that, a letter of the alphabet, not as it turns out a cunning and dastardly plot by Christians to corrupt our Muslim faith."
Ok it’s obvious that he’s being sarcastic here... at least I hope he is! But these religious "scholars" are even crazier than I thought they were! |