Online boycott already started:

http://www.pledgebank.com/BurgerKing

to Burger King for the swift response.

"Bending over and taking it", you mean.

Is Burger King halal? No. So what the hell has it got to do with muslims? Really.

Double post.

Isn't that how capitalism is suposed to work?

It no more resembles the Arabic for Allah than the man in the moon. This is getting beyond ridiculous.

Burger King should have told them exactly where to stick it.

No, for showing respect. Something few companies and persons in the West know what is anymore.

You read Arabic? I read it as Allah before I took a look at the text next to it and I'm not even especially good at reading Arabic.

What's your problem with them showing some respect to the Muslim community?

No. And neither do 99.999999% of people who use Burger King.

Are you guys going to demand that McDonalds takes bacon off the menu next?

"Respect" my left buttcheek. It looks exactly like a cone of soft-serve ice cream.



It dosen't particulalry shock me that you would insist you read "Allah."

If you can show me a sample of Arabic in a different form that actually looks like that packaging, I would change my mind, but I see no resemblance whatsoever.

I don't see any business removing Stars of David or Crosses, et. al. because they are "offensive" to Jews or Christians. Or any other religious symbolism. I guess every picture of a fat man now offends Buddhists?

Get real.

The plain fact seems to be that some Muslims spend every waking hour looking for a reson to be offended.

The real reason Burger King pulled it is that the last thing they want is some "Jihadist" to come in the front door with a bomb strapped to his @ss. Or cause another riot over nothing that gets people killed.

That goes both ways. He could have just notified Burger King about the resemblance before organizing a boycott and calling that "his jihad".

Actually it looks like a crap I took.

I was trying for a pretzel and wound up with an allah.

Are you sure about that number? IIRC Icecream is halal. And many other items on their menu are halal as well.

And no, we won't demand that McDonals takes bacon off the menu. It isn't blasphemy or offensive. We just skip the meals with bacon on them.

Reminds me of the scene in "Life of Brian" where they want to stone a man simply because he said "that pot roast was good enough for Jehovah."

Thank the Lord that Christians and Jews have a sense of humor, unlike some people we could name.

To you it does. But that's understandable because you don't read Arabic. Check out the example you gave in the first post.

You already did that in the first post. If you can't see it out of that there is only one reason for it. But I'll let you figure out the reason for yourself.

And that's none of my business. If you (Christians, Jews and Buddhists) want to have those symbols on things like icecream it's fine by me.

Looked in the mirror lately?

If you would have even a little knowledge about Islam you would understand that Jihad doesn't mean that. That's just your version of Islam. Sort of like OBL's version.

I agree about all you say except the last part. The last part ("his jihad") would be the correct term for the first part of your post.

Human stupidity and intolerance makes me glad I'm not God. Everyone else should be thankful, too.

Maury

Tell me something. Do you think Africans should like "nigger-jokes"? How about Jews and "kike-jokes"?

In many parts of the world, yes. In my town? Yes.

I enjoy the occasional dago joke myself. It all depends in what spirit its in.

Why don't you just skip the BK ice cream then?

Somebody with better Photoshop skills than me (Maury?!?) can point out that the swirls in the ice cream have an opposite orientation to the curls of the Arabic character/term (I don't know what to call it). So, would the swirls of the ice cream actually have any correlation to a character/term in Arabic as they are drawn?

While at first glance there is a general resemblance after about 10 seconds of close looking it becomes quite apparent the two are not that similar. It's a tempest in a teapot if you ask me. Like somebody elses said, this guy is out there looking for ways to be offended.

They did that one already... ...remember the Miss World contest which sparked riots and about a hundred dead because some guy said of the contestants: "They're so lovely that mohammed would be pleased to marry them".

That reminds me. I must go flush a koran down the toilet. Back soon.

In my first part I said that respect ought to be a two way thing. What does that have to do with jihad?

I would if the label said "Allah". I'd be offended if it said "Allah" on an icecream. But I'm happy that this Muslim brother of mine brought attention to it (not saying I agree with how he did it). And I'm happy with BK for showing the respect to withdraw it and to decide to find another logo to put on it.

I'm just surprised how outraged you guys are at BK for showing some respect. Well, not really.....

That was intentionally offensive and inflammatory and completely unnecessary.

I'm Catholic, not Muslim but that is an offensive comment. If someone said that about the Bible, people would be up in arms.

The stupid ice cream cone isn't the same as a freakin racial joke.

Some idiot overreacted and forced a company to change a stupid piece of artwork.

HEY, I saw Mary in a grilled cheez sandwich!

The "swirl" is different depending on the calligrapher in Arabic. It's the general form that matters. And it simply reads "Allah". Which is offensive to Muslims to have on an icecream.

(perhaps I also need to remind you that Arabic is read from right to left).