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.”
Sorry, but I don't see the moral equivalence. On the one hand, you have an abstract accident of happenstance, no more malignant than a set of well-placed skidmarks on the highway, or the chance configuration of a contrail of an airliner blown about by swirling winds.
On the other hand, you see an artiste who, for reasons of some imagined brotherhood-of-man reconciliation, insults the victims' loved-ones in memorializing the victims of islam by displaying one of its most revered symbols around the site of one of their perverted triumphs. Please forgive me if I'm missing something in your equation.
This is absolutely ASSinine!!!!!!!!!!!
I would say it is a bit of a stretch calling them similar.
I was thinking the same thing. See - we just got a new puppy - all of 8 weeks old - and I think she's writing in Arabic script.
Burger King's design looks like a pile of dog doodoo.
So, that means Allah is..?
Your grandma threw around the evil eye?
I had a friend whose granny did that...scared the bejeezus out of us all. ;) I mean, we believed her!
All praise to Ice Cream!
They see Christians forced to pay for "art work" like a crucifix submerged in urine and it puts them on guard.
OK, then I'll say it.....We know where it should end.
Sorry, nutjob though the muslim whiner is, the fault lies with BK........
.....for bending over and grabbing the ankles. Jeez, if you are going to act like a doormat, better expect people to wipe their shoes on you. The muslim ought to sue for emotional distress, it's obvious BK would cough up something.
Just an open invitation to more of this kind of crap. Wait and see.
Anyone care to venture a guess at to how BK would respond to an offended Christian?
Betcha they're just McDonald's employees.
He's like the the little boy who cried wolf.
I'm watching the History channel, 9:30est, and there is a show on
about hussein and his atrocities....along with Chemical Ali
these were some sick dudes to their own people....its pretty sick.
You know, if you can't reason any further than that....
Maybe you think the WW2 Memorial should have a rising sun on one of the walls? and that I'd be a dingbat for being enraged.
FYI, memorials honor the fallen, not the murderers.
Looks like ice cream to me...nothing more.
THis is quite clever.
You mean the Saint Louis Friendship Crescent over the Mississippi river?
Hopefully they will be on the short end of a long rope soon.
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