A year or two ago Burger King over in Great Britain got in trouble because the small artistic representation of soft serve ice cream, when viewed from a certain orientation, looked roughly like the arabic word for allah. The standard Islamic grievance groups went into full swing, and now the stylized swirl is no more.

If you ever wonder where you can see where the future of Islam is going, it's probably a good idea to watch Saudi Arabia. With a few supertankers worth of petrodollars and a murderous, intolerant ideology where it's illegal to charge or collect interest, the Saudis have the wherewithal to export their nutty religious beliefs worldwide.

Saudi Arabia's nutty holy rollers known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice -- last seen forcing schoolgirls back into a burning building to die because they were improperly dressed -- has issued a fatwa banning the letter "x."

No, not because if you string three of them together you get a shorthand for a variety of media banned in that country.

Instead, it is because if you turn an "x" 45 degrees in either direction, you get a "+" sign. (Those haven't been banned -- yet.) And a plus sign, if you're a ignorant, Muslim zealot looks too much like a cross.

It's a good thing that Apple has chosen to name its products iWhatever, otherwise they'd have serious business issues to face.