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.
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the latest example of Western business interests giving in to pressure by offended Muslims, Burger King reportedly has withdrawn an ice cream product after complaints that a label design looks like the Arabic script for "Allah."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.
If you look at some of the Islamoscum upside down and backward they look almost human. But that must just be an optical illusion.
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.
I knew I liked Coke for a reason...
I can boycott them for changing that logo that I loved so much. There are a lot more of us than there are islamderthals.
They could sell it on e-bay right?
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.
LOL! Only if they put in the freezer reeeal fast!
Or it if you play it backwards on a turntable you here "Praise be to Allah" several times in Paul McCartney's voice.
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!!
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,
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.
Salaam alakum = eat more bacon, right?
Maybe that is why we don't have privvies like these any more.
Must be Islamazi hell...forced to actually use a toilet...and the place froze over before he evolved enough to do it!
Political Correctness is going to be the death of America.
Let these people complain.
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