There’s no such thing. Sounds like a Westernized recent addition. I can assure all that any Muslim trying to flash a “hand sign” in a Muslim country would get a stern dressing down by a cleric or their family.
19 posted on 10/18/2012 9:22:08 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
Found it. It's ancient. Due to it's links to superstition, I can see no way it would be freely used in public in the Middle East. In the six years I lived in Saudi Arabia, I never saw it used or mentioned.