The Saudis and the clock

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Nov 28, 2010 at 08:55

Hi Dr. Pipes

Did you notice that the numbers on the clock are not Arabic numerals? But what is most bizarre is that all the numbers are Latin numerals 2 or II?

My guess is that in typical Saudi fashion they realized that using Roman numerals would not be Islamic and the Saudis would be the joke of the entire world! Arabic numerals? not very sexy, so the happy medium would be one single Roman numeral and in this case II and as usual no one would notice

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