Anyone recall the brilliant 1974 fatwa issued by Saudi Arabia’s regnant Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice? Published by the Islamic University of Medina, the commission then pronounced that the Earth is immobile and flat.

According to the New York Sun , the “scholarly” clerics who run the commission have now issued an edict banning the letter “X” in the kingdom because of its resemblance to . . . the Christian cross.

This would be a hoot if it were not so malevolent.