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Fast-Food Company to Drop Logo After Muslims Gripe
CNS News ^ | September 19, 2005 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 09/19/2005 11:41:14 AM PDT by Millee

In the latest example of Western business interests giving in to pressure by offended Muslims, Burger King reportedly has withdrawn an ice cream product after complaints that a label design looks like the Arabic script for "Allah."

British media reported at the weekend that the fast-food restaurant chain pulled the "BK Cone" and pledged to redesign the label after Muslim customers complained.

The product label bears a pattern representing a stylized swirl of soft serve ice cream. But some customer looked at it sideways and thought they could see something else.

A London tabloid, The Sun, said Burger King fielded "dozens of complaints."

Another paper, the Scotsman, said Burger King "is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid." It quoted a Muslim Council of Britain spokesman as commending the company for "sensitive and prompt action."

Other business interests that have run afoul of Muslim sensibilities in similar circumstances include sportswear giant Nike, Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld and food and homecare manufacturer Unilever.

In 1997, Nike pulled tens of thousands of basketball shoes after it was told that the logo - the word "air" in flame-like letters - looked like "Allah" in Arabic when viewed from a certain angle.

Newsweek reported in July of that year that Nike had launched a program of "sensitivity training on Islam" and gave a donation to an Islamic school.

A year later, Unilever scrapped a new logo it had begun to use on Walls ice creams in the Middle East - again after Muslims said the intertwining red and yellow hearts looked like "Allah" in Arabic, when viewed upside down and backwards.

In 1994, Lagerfeld designed a dress incorporating a pattern he had copied from Arabic lettering on India's Taj Mahal monument. The lettering included the phrase "They are the ones who found guidance," used a number of times in the Koran.

German supermodel Claudia Schiffer received death threats after wearing the dress, prompting her mother to make a public plea for her safety. The designer apologized and burned the garments. He also destroyed photographs and negatives of the dress.

Coca Cola has for years struggled to dispel the rumor that the soft drink's trademark swirly-writing logo, when seen at a particular angle, looked like the Arabic script for "No Mohammed, No Mecca."

The company's website has a "myths and rumors" section where it contests the charge, arguing that "the trademark was created in 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia, at a time and place where there was little knowledge of Arabic."

"The allegation has been brought before a number of senior Muslim clerics in the Middle East who researched it in detail and refuted the rumor outright," it says.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: burgerking; islam; muslim; religionofpeace; trop
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To: Millee

If you look at some of the Islamoscum upside down and backward they look almost human. But that must just be an optical illusion.


21 posted on 09/19/2005 11:57:46 AM PDT by Mr. Keys
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To: Millee
In other news, the same group of yahoos, having nothing better to do than go around looking for stuff to 'offend' them, travel to America where they spied one of these:

Shouting: "The Crescent upon that building offends me!", they have declared jihad against privvies and are now spending all their time and energy blowing them (and themselves) up.

22 posted on 09/19/2005 11:58:06 AM PDT by uglybiker (I am not trying to take over the world. I did that last week.)
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To: Millee; Grannyx4

I knew I liked Coke for a reason...


23 posted on 09/19/2005 11:58:07 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Fines for excess bleeding.)
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To: Millee
What the hell? Geez, Louise! Last time I looked, the Muslim world sure as hell didn't give a rip about intentionally offending us! Why the hell do poeple in the West always shake in their knickers when we accidentally offend them?!
24 posted on 09/19/2005 11:58:48 AM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: Millee

I can boycott them for changing that logo that I loved so much. There are a lot more of us than there are islamderthals.


25 posted on 09/19/2005 11:58:56 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Spok
"Does anyone recall Muslims being treated with such deference before 9/11? The left 'respects' only that which truly frightens them."

Ann Coulter said it best: The left finally found a religion they could respect, it hates America as much as they do And so I can not be accused of brakinng the rules
26 posted on 09/19/2005 11:59:10 AM PDT by sticker
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
I wonder what would have happened if the guy had gotten an actual cone in which "Allah" was spelled out in the swirls of ice cream. Seems like it would be easy enough to do completely by accident. Would he have considered it some kind of miracle and bowed down to it?

They could sell it on e-bay right?

27 posted on 09/19/2005 11:59:43 AM PDT by Iron Matron
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To: All
The "religion of peace and tolerance" strikes again!


28 posted on 09/19/2005 12:01:26 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: Millee
Coca Cola has for years struggled to dispel the rumor that the soft drink's trademark swirly-writing logo, when seen at a particular angle, looked like the Arabic script for "No Mohammed, No Mecca."

Coke shouldn't fight this. They should dig up some of their old slogans and run with it:

1. Things Go Great with No Mohammed

2. Song: "I'd like to teach the world to sing...I'd like to give the world No Mohammed..."

Finally, it could rally their mixed drink sales: With a little spiced rum you get a NoMohammedMorgan.

29 posted on 09/19/2005 12:01:31 PM PDT by kidd
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To: Iron Matron

LOL! Only if they put in the freezer reeeal fast!


30 posted on 09/19/2005 12:02:16 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (An infidel.)
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To: jim_trent

Or it if you play it backwards on a turntable you here "Praise be to Allah" several times in Paul McCartney's voice.


31 posted on 09/19/2005 12:02:25 PM PDT by Cathy
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To: Millee

I, for one, (and probably the only one) propose we should stop calling canines "dogs" because "dog" is simply "God" backwards. For that matter, the word "good" is just "God" with an extra "o". This sacrelige has got to stop!!


32 posted on 09/19/2005 12:03:22 PM PDT by L98Fiero
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To: Millee; Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Anybody know the arabic script for "Ha-ha!  Snuck pork into your food while you weren't looking, you stoneaged bastard!"

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

33 posted on 09/19/2005 12:04:27 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Millee

If it would have been up to me, I would have told them where to stick the ice cream. I am really sick of Islam and their fanatical nonsense. Amen.


34 posted on 09/19/2005 12:07:06 PM PDT by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: Millee
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35 posted on 09/19/2005 12:08:56 PM PDT by skimask (Whatever happens it's Bush or Rove's fault.)
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To: Owl_Eagle; MHak

Salaam alakum = eat more bacon, right?


36 posted on 09/19/2005 12:11:13 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Not to change the subject (entirely), but does anyone else think that Burger Kings "King" is a bit..weird?

After those commercials where the big-headed one got in bed with his customers..now he's playing football or something..Geez!

Keep the Logo drop the "King".
37 posted on 09/19/2005 12:11:34 PM PDT by Iron Matron
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To: uglybiker

Maybe that is why we don't have privvies like these any more.


38 posted on 09/19/2005 12:11:36 PM PDT by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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To: skimask

Must be Islamazi hell...forced to actually use a toilet...and the place froze over before he evolved enough to do it!

39 posted on 09/19/2005 12:14:22 PM PDT by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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To: Millee

Political Correctness is going to be the death of America.

Let these people complain.


40 posted on 09/19/2005 12:17:23 PM PDT by Burlem
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