Allah Swirly Cone - “This is my jihad.”

Burger King recalls ’sacrilegious’ desserts
Remember? Before Danish Muhammed cartoons, the Religion of “How Dare You” was freaking out over an abstract swirly ice cream image on the lid of a Burger King cup.
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THE fast-food chain, Burger King, is withdrawing its ice-cream cones after the lid of the dessert offended a Muslim. The man claimed the design resembled the Arabic inscription for Allah, and branded it sacrilegious, threatening a “jihad”.

The chain is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid with backing from The Muslim Council of Britain. It apologised and said: “The design simply represents a spinning ice-cream cone.”

The offending lid was spotted in a branch in Park Royal last week by business development manager Rashad Akhtar, 27, of High Wycombe. 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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Comments

  1. The Sanity Inspector wrote:

    Now, now; it’s all a matter of context.

    If the holy names and phrases occur in nature, then everyone’s cool wit’ dat. (Warning: Loads slow on dial-up connection)

    Posted 05 Feb 2006 at 5:57 pm

  2. Chief RZ wrote:

    Reminds me of the controversy over the iced tea bottles here in the USA. Something about a clipper ship being a “slave ship”! Fanatics, uneducated people.

    Posted 06 Feb 2006 at 11:58 am

  3. Steve wrote:

    A bit of a stretch; chinese characters can mean completely different things by an angle of a line. I think you have the same thing here, it looks like a ice cream cone. If he doesn’t like it don’t buy it, save your jihad for the bathroom.

    Posted 06 Feb 2006 at 6:23 pm

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