Are they going after cows next?
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the latest example of Western business interests giving in to pressure by offended Muslims, Burger King reportedly has withdrawn an ice cream product after complaints that a label design looks like the Arabic script for "Allah."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.
I'm not sure if the picture looks like "Allah" or something my dog leaves on the front lawn? But, I guess they're really the same thing.
These arrogant,self-righteous chest-beating misogenists really are getting tiresome. Perhaps they should go pound some sand?
muslims.
FM if they can't take a joke..
Or, for all the Rescue Me fans, when they see only the aftermath of the spritzing of the plant above the statue, and not the spritzing itself. :)
It looks like a good urinal target to me.
Wonder if we can come up with a Logo that shows Allah sodomizing a pig.
I'd pay for a T-shirt with that on it, and wear it proudly.
lol good idea
Well..Islam had better change their symbol for allah. It offends me because it looks like ice cream and I worship ice cream.
I tried making a silk screen for one. But Satan sued for using his likeness.
Yeah you got me. Considering how rarely I would of gone to BK anyway it was an idle threat
Does it come in pork flavor?
I'm puzzled. Why can't ice cream be "heavenly?"
First, thanks for providing the proper word for what I was saying: Halal.
I would think that if muslimes do not keep halal, they have no business getting their loin cloths twisted over an ice cream cone logo and its supposed connotations. Since 911, muslimes have been getting all prissy about one made-up, trumped-up, "offense" or another. Their goal is long-term and we would be fools to give in to ISLAMIC demands.
If USA business caves to Religious Blackmail perpetrated by muslimes, they are giving a foot in the door to the suppression of the Christian Religion (which muslimes find very offensive indeed!) that gave us our Freedoms and placing upon a pedestal the satanic (antiChrist) religion of islam.
If we begin to live by islamic rules and sensibilities, I suspect future generations will be under their thumbs.
Dont believe me? Look at France and other countires taken over by muslimes. Their troubles are many and will be a hard fix.
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