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Burger King withdraws ice-cream cones after swirly design offended a Muslim.

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lol @ the act of declaring Jihad over this. No, he couldn't just, you know, write a letter. 😛
 
anyone else remember that black dude in LA that wanted harddrives changed from slave/master to something that didn't offend him 🙂
 
YOu don't see people complaining

about G.O.D. (Guaranteed Overnight Delivery) Transportation trucks

with their giant GOD on the side


Those things crack me up every time I see them
 
Originally posted by: ttown
It's official: The terrorists have won.
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for real.

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durka, JIHAD!
 
BK usually brings out religion in me....I always end up praying that I won't get sick before I eat that crap they call food. (BK down the road scored a 60 last time the health dept came through)
 
Originally posted by: ttown
It's official: The terrorists have won.
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That's a bit too general, there is the American terrorist (oklahoma bombings) or the Middle Eastern Terrorist (Osama bin laden), and every terrorist of all races around the world. Which one?
 
Originally posted by: Rashad Akhtar

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."
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Somebody needs to kick this guy in the nards.
 
im more pissed that BK cowered and actually took this stupid compaint seriously.

when i see stuff like this about islam i hate the religion even more. It gives the impression that the only way they know how to deal with issues is to use threats all in Allaha name. and in nearly all the cases its not an impression but how they deal with it.

You offend allah, i kill you!!!
 
Originally posted by: yellowfiero
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."
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I had a pair of thoise shoes....always liked them.
 
Originally posted by: yllus
lol @ the act of declaring Jihad over this. No, he couldn't just, you know, write a letter. 😛
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Or he could just go fvck himslef. People tell me I resemble John Cusack a little but they are rational enough to know I am not him. Just because something subconsciously reminds this nutjob whacko of Allah doesn't mean it was done with that intent in mind. It's HIS problem, not BK's. If somebody gets a hard on every time they see the Washington Monument, does that mean they should tear it down and redesign it? Yes, from looking at the pic, I can see the resemblance when they are side by side. . .kind of. But the ice cream swirl is clearly just that. . .an ice cream swirl. Nothing more. End of story. If you read enough into just about any picture or icon, you can fool yourself into believing that there is something religiously significant about it. But only an insanely obsessed and fanatical person would do such a thing. And then for that person to expect the world to change because of his deluded beliefs. . .well. . .do us a favor and die.

[EDIT] This is not directed at the person I quoted, I'm just ranting in general. I can't believe this is what the world is coming to. Somebody please tell me this article is a satire.
 
Originally posted by: StormRider
Shouldn't Muslims be offended at Arabs for developing a language that makes God look like an ice cream swirl?
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are you fvcking stupid? there were no ice-cream swirls during the time when the language is created eh?
 
Originally posted by: Sheepathon
Added this to the OP.
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Why does all Arabic writing look like fire? It is offensive to me because I worship Prometheus who gave the earth fire and it resembles fire so it is sacriledge!
 
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