Whackingday.com

This is priceless:

The Islamic Solidarity Games Federation, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has canceled this year’s event, which was scheduled to be held in Tehran in April, because its Iranian counterpart refused to remove the phrase “Persian Gulf” from the event’s promotional material and medals.

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Created in 2005 to help bolster relations between Muslim countries, the games had already been pushed back from October 2009 to April 2010 amid conflicting reports of fears concerning swine flu and tensions about the words “Persian Gulf.”

The debate between Arabian Peninsula countries and Iran over what to call the body of water that lies between them goes beyond cartography. Experts say it mirrors a regional power struggle that has raged for close to 50 years and continues to be played out in international bodies and on college campuses around the world.

I guess this is Israel’s fault as well.

(via JF Beck)