"Cairo airport officials say Egypt's top Muslim cleric cancelled a visit to Saudi
Arabia at the invitation of its monarch when he discovered that senior delegates
traveling with him were assigned economy class seats by their Saudi hosts. The
officials said Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar — Sunni Islam's
highest seat of learning — angrily disembarked from a Saudi-bound airliner
shortly before takeoff on Wednesday and instructed his delegation to follow
suit." (thanks Basim)