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Morrigoon
08-04-2006, 01:24 PM
http://www.harpers.org/ImHatinIt.html

Personally... I think it's a coincidence and this guy's totally overreacting.
Alex
08-04-2006, 01:59 PM
Here's a story with a picture: http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/35

Personally, I'm offended that Allah would take a name that looks like an ice cream cone.
Morrigoon
08-04-2006, 02:03 PM
That's wierd... the link I used used to have a picture with it. Odd.
Ghoulish Delight
08-04-2006, 02:06 PM
I don't know, I think he's on to something.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/gdiddy/LoT/mcallah.jpg
Alex
08-04-2006, 02:07 PM
Except that one stops halfway through the final letter so McDonald's just barely avoids sacrilege.
Ghoulish Delight
08-04-2006, 02:30 PM
Except that one stops halfway through the final letter so McDonald's just barely avoids sacrilege.
All the more proof. Clearly they purposely altered it just enough for plausible deniability. They need to change their signs to "Billions Insulted".
Capt Jack
08-04-2006, 02:59 PM
"sometimes a banana is just a banana"

- S. Freud
SzczerbiakManiac
08-04-2006, 03:23 PM
After reading that, I don't know how I could roll my eyes back any farther.
Alex
08-04-2006, 04:26 PM
I find it ridiculous that anybody truly got upset by it, but I am also very amused that an abstract drawing of an ice cream cone produced a result that looks like "Allah" when tipped on its side.

I'm a decade removed from my college Arabic classes but I would have still been able to recognize it if someone had pointed it out to me.
tracilicious
08-05-2006, 12:53 AM
I find it ridiculous that anybody truly got upset by it, but I am also very amused that an abstract drawing of an ice cream cone produced a result that looks like "Allah" when tipped on its side.

Ditto. I had never seen the Allah symbol before (that I can remember) and was stunned at the resemblance in the picture. But upon further examination of the ice cream cone, the picture really did look just like an ice cream cone. Life is funny.

I don't see how Burger King had any choice but to change it. I didn't even know BK sold ice cream cones.
€uroMeinke
08-05-2006, 10:44 AM
I shall forever think Allah Akbar everytime I have an ice cream cone.
Alex
08-05-2006, 10:48 AM
I don't see how Burger King had any choice but to change it. I didn't even know BK sold ice cream cones.

I don't know if they do here (they used to sell frozen Snickers bars which was the only reason I ever went to Burger King) but this happened in the UK so their menu is probably different.
CoasterMatt
08-05-2006, 11:50 AM
Iced Infidels
NirvanaMan
08-05-2006, 11:58 AM
We should nuke 'em.
€uroMeinke
08-05-2006, 12:04 PM
We should nuke 'em.

Burger King?
Not Afraid
08-05-2006, 12:21 PM
Little tiny individual niks aimed at each franchaise and one super-sized for company headquarters.

Change that. Meal Deal Nukes for franchaises and a Whopper for headquarters.