Looks more like "Allah" than "Air" to me...
Posted on 09/21/2005 8:54:32 AM PDT by Seamus Mc Gillicuddy
Fast-Food Company to Drop Logo After Muslims Gripe By Patrick Goodenough CNSNews.com International Editor September 19, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - 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the latest example of Western business interests giving in to pressure by offended Muslims, Burger King reportedly has withdrawn an ice cream product after complaints that a label design looks like the Arabic script for "Allah."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.
Well I will stop going to Burger King now that they have proven gutless.
I love gripe...tastes like chicken.
Looks more like "Allah" than "Air" to me...
A: With sharia law.
What do the worm writers see in a fresh, steaming Fido deposit?
Why would BK and Nike ever cave in to these bizarros?
What next? Repoman-style cans of FOOD or DRINK or BEER?
If one stands on one's head, at five twenty seven, every other Saturday, and looks at it backwards and sideways, in a mirror, at a ninety degree angle, upside down, on a slant, while wearing blue knickers, singing your favorite show tune, etc.
"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." "
Yeah, and they're also worried about the bumper stickers and t-shirts that say, in the same exact script as the Coca Cola logo...."Come Caca"
You can find these in any hispanic convenience store.
What's the difference in this, and the refusal of American women to wear veils? It seems all the Moslem Clerics have to do is issue an "I'm in a bad mood edict" and some lame-brain caves.
Good luck ladies...
Our nation is crumbling.
Yikes.
Frankly, I think they have a point.
Consider that hundreds of people line up to witness a "miracle" whenever a face shaped blob shows up on a concrete wall in this country...
Well, I wouldn't particularly want to buy something inscribed with the name of Satan's most successful persona...
Being tasteless wasn't enough? :)
I find this odd.....You'd think the Muslims would be HONORED to find this.....and find a way to advance their "cause" because of it....
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