Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X'?

Apparently not a joke, according to an article in the New York Sun:

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.

(Courtesy of Christianity Today's Weblog.)