Google Veterans Day Controversy: American Flag, Islamic Crescent Moon Doodle Sparks Internet Outrage

Associated Content ^ | November 11, 2010 | William Browning

[lbryce]

Motifs of the American flag have become a regular addition to Google's artistic repertoire celebrating patriotic holidays but today's Veterans Day doodle has sparked a measure of controversy.

In the past Google personified its doodle with red, white and blue letters but the addition of an Islamic crescent moon-looking "e" has all the Internet abuzz.

Tweets via Twitter have included a broad range of hostile opinions about 'Old Glory' appearing with the shadow of a stylized Islamic crescent moon--especially on Veterans Day. The Google doodle is definitely stirring up fears of fanning the flames of anti-Islamic sentiments in America. Was that what Google intended?

Reactions on Twitter have ranged from shock to disappointment at Google's choice of doodle designs for Veterans Day.

LaughTech on Twitter enlarged the logo and set its caption as "Google says, 'Happy Veterans Day, Islam'".

AdrianTweeting makes a similar observation: "The Veterans Day Google logo kind of makes the "e" on the end look like a sinister Islamic crescent lurking behind the flag. Unfortunate.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

[BattleFlag]

Mind now.... ;o)

For me, EVERY day is a day to give thanks for and to those who allow us all to live in freedom.

http://www.freerepublic.com/~battleflag/

My profile is the same, 24/7/365.

God Bless You All, my brothers and sisters past, present and future.

[lbryce]

I wholeheartedly agree with what you've said on both comments 60,65 and to which I apologize for, accepting responsibility for having linked to this less-than-celebrated site on which I based this post on.

The fact is that I am very judicious about the sites I choose to post articles about here at FR, sites I come across regarding a story of interest often not suitable to be posted here due to what I find to be politically undesirable, having to search for alternative sources in which to post articles on these same issues.

In this case, I agree with you that the site linked to was less than optimum, should have been a bit more careful.

But the bottom line is,was that this story was given considerable coverage all throughout the internet, media and thus felt it deserved to be posted albeit at a site more deserved, authoritative to be linked to.

[coop71]

Thanks for pointing this out. This kind of stuff gets passed off as “news” all the time.

By the way, the “crescent” in the Google logo is actually a plane contrail. Duh.

[Soothesayer]

“What do you see in this?”

A Muslim with baggy pants delivering three meat bombs and tossing explosives.