Posted on 09/18/2005 5:18:50 PM PDT by frankjr
Cowardice, thy name is Burger King: Burger King recalls ‘sacrilegious’ desserts. (Hat tip: efuseakay.)
THE fast-food chain, Burger King, is withdrawing its ice-cream cones after the lid of the dessert offended a Muslim.
The man claimed the design resembled the Arabic inscription for Allah, and branded it sacrilegious, threatening a “jihad”.
The chain is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid with backing from The Muslim Council of Britain. It apologised and said: “The design simply represents a spinning ice-cream cone.”
The offending lid was spotted in a branch in Park Royal last week by business development manager Rashad Akhtar, 27, of High Wycombe.
He was not satisfied by the decision to withdraw the cones and has called on Muslims to boycott Burger King. He said: “This is my jihad. How can you say it is a spinning swirl? If you spin it one way to the right you are offending Muslims.”
A Muslim Council spokesman said: “We commend the sensitive and prompt action that Burger King has taken.”
I mean, crucifixes in urine and imagery of the Blessed Virgin spattered with excrement were just peachy when it came to the treatment of Christianity.
Will the artistic community step up to the plate and "raise questions" about the Islamic religion? After all, it (or branches of it) condone a two-track society in which women are afforded second-class status, cannot own property, and are subjected to gruesome mutilation of their sexual organs.
Where are the Korans submerged in urine?
Where are the Korans spattered in feces?
I await the first of the artists who will show his or her courage by challenging the Islamic world as they did the Christian world.
(steely)
po baby muzzies!
"That malocchio is powerful stuff!!!"
Oh I know. Luckily my mother could do some 'oil in a bowl of water' thing to see if someone put the evil eye on me.
"Malocchio", thanks, I only know it if I hear it, can't spell it. Along with a few swear words.
Some company should see their jihad and raise a crusade.
Every time Westerners apologize like madmen and accomodate Islamists' every wish every time 'jihad" is screamed is yet another nail in the coffin of Western Civ.
I usually do not go to Burger King, but now I just might.
Yea, literally 'bad eye' made into one word. I'm FBI (actually FB Sicilian) so I picked this up whenever I could.
It's a relatively simple process to do a one-time, lifelong protection of the Evil Eye, by the way.
lol!!!
They can blow up "infidels" but we can have swirly things on ice creams!! they don't yell about the suicide murderers but they YELL ABOUT ICE CREAM SCRIBBLINGS!!!
It is not ice cream. It is a steaming mound of used food.
I checked scrappleface, so this must be real and the mooslums only approve of beheadings of infidels. Everything else that they think is 8th century. I wish they would all die and go away.
Sounds like the dingbats here in the US who are enraged because the memorial resembles a crescent.
What a bunch of drama queens.
Exactly, and who knows what came first anyway? BK Cones or Allah? Plus that Allan symbol in the picture looks like it is stamped inside some type of bottlecap. Probably from a Coke prize contest in the Middle East. Jihad!
Now let me get this right, the Arabic symbol for Allah is a spinning ice cream cone?
Makes me want to go order a McRib.
"What a bunch of drama queens."
In this case, I think you mean 'Dairy Queens'.
"Burger King does not accept Emails."
I suggest that we write letters via postal service condeming their captulation and advising that our 'jihad' is sending us all to the golden arches because they did capitulate.
When did the French buy Burger King?!
and a sausage mcmuffin for breakfast
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