Nike Faces Demand to Recall Sneakers as Muslims Object to Design

[geezer]

Wat noem mens nou daai waatlemoen wat sulke lekker jam maak?

Makataan

 

[geezer]

Nevermind the fact Nike is also a god.

Actually a goddess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_(mythology)
Nike (/ˈnaɪki/; Ancient Greek: Νίκη, "Victory" [nǐːkɛː]) was a goddess who personified victory.

 

[unskinnybob]

Looks like an arm and boobies?

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

And they'll give in to these tards, as insignificant and idiotic as they are, Nike will belly up

 

[LazyLion]

Sure, aside from the fact that there is actual physical evidence of dinosaurs...

Exactly.... just like there is actual evidence of the use of the Arabic descriptive title going back thousands of years BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah

 

[Kosmik]

Nike makes you blow up faster?

Remember that dude who threw a shoe in protest? I think it's a thing in the middle east, imagine being whacked like that now

But in all seriousness, anyone can see the name is for the model/series, AirMax, the letters are even overembossed to separate. How many folks are offended by pre-school finger painting drawings then?

 

[C4Cat]

Exactly.... just like there is actual evidence of the use of the Arabic descriptive title going back thousands of years BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah

Yes, variants of the word. From your link:

Different theories have been proposed regarding the role of Allah in pre-Islamic polytheistic cults. Some authors have suggested that polytheistic Arabs used the name as a reference to a creator god or a supreme deity of their pantheon.[24][25] The term may have been vague in the Meccan religion.[24][26] According to one hypothesis, which goes back to Julius Wellhausen, Allah (the supreme deity of the tribal federation around Quraysh) was a designation that consecrated the superiority of Hubal (the supreme deity of Quraysh) over the other gods.[8] However, there is also evidence that Allah and Hubal were two distinct deities.[8] According to that hypothesis, the Kaaba was first consecrated to a supreme deity named Allah and then hosted the pantheon of Quraysh after their conquest of Mecca, about a century before the time of Muhammad.[8] Some inscriptions seem to indicate the use of Allah as a name of a polytheist deity centuries earlier, but we know nothing precise about this use.[8] Some scholars have suggested that Allah may have represented a remote creator god who was gradually eclipsed by more particularized local deities.[27][28] There is disagreement on whether Allah played a major role in the Meccan religious cult.[27][29] No iconic representation of Allah is known to have existed.[29][30]

Like I said, debatable

 

[Pitbull]

Nike should tell them to get farked!

But we all know, no one stands up against these Slam ous...

 

[Cray]

I would find it highly amusing if conservatives and Muslims both end up boycotting Nike at the same time. (althoguh the Kaepernick is probably long past)

 

[Nerfherder]

Taking offence to a shoe? When's the next asteroid hitting us?

In Islam (or Arabic culture) the underside of the foot is the dirtiest part of the body, its the worse offence to show or touch someone with the underside of the foot (because it touches the floor all the time).
Its also bad to deface an image or the name of god.... so his name on the underside of a shoe just breaks all the rules..

I wonder where i can get a pair of these.

 

[TysonRoux]

I'm guessing it's not the "real muslims" complaining about this.

 

[HennieWelkom]

I think the large amount of faked outrage nowadays needs to go away, I bet you Nike would cave though, nothing holier in the liberal mind than a Muslim.

 

[FrankCastle]

The irony here is that 99% of Muslims are ignorant about the origins of allah and arabic. Ask any muslim about Aramaic and they won't know.

Most probably think it was started by Mohammed, hence why it is so sacred in islam.

If only they knew the Zionists actually invented it, they'll go nuts.

 

[Lindiswa]

I think this should be recalled....
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it looks too much like burnt bread.

I see jesus!!

 

[Nick333]

OK, I'll be that guy. I am by no means a fan of religion in general. But I respect people's right to be religious.
I can see why they are upset.

No you can't. Some random design coincidentally looking vaguely like your word for God in your holy language is upsetting how? These people like being upset, because it gives them power over people who care about people being upset, so they go looking for any stupid shyt that could can be vaguely spun into something they could plausibly be upset about just to see how ridiculous other people can be in their desperation to please everyone. Fcck them, they're retarded.

 

[AdrianH]

I think this should be recalled....
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it looks too much like burnt bread.

Jesus on toast, I give you Satan on steak!

 

[TysonRoux]

http://www.fantasticalnonsense.com/2009/11/e-is-for-elvis.html

 

[vigras rojara]

No you can't. Some random design coincidentally looking vaguely like your word for God in your holy language is upsetting how? These people like being upset, because it gives them power over people who care about people being upset, so they go looking for any stupid shyt that could can be vaguely spun into something they could plausibly be upset about just to see how ridiculous other people can be in their desperation to please everyone. Fcck them, they're retarded.

You seem to be upset by this.

 

[nightjar]

You seem to be upset by this.

Thinking people should be concerned that 1.2 billion brainwashed fanatics insist that the remaining 6.5 billion should follow their beliefs.

Failure by Nike to withdraw the shoes and abjectly apologize is likely to result in widespread riots enthusiastically promoted by clergy whose only goal is to extend the undemocratic rule of the religion of peace.

 

[C4Cat]

The irony here is that 99% of Muslims are ignorant about the origins of allah and arabic. Ask any muslim about Aramaic and they won't know.

Most probably think it was started by Mohammed, hence why it is so sacred in islam.

If only they knew the Zionists actually invented it, they'll go nuts.

The irony here is you assuming you know what 99% of Muslims know or don't know about their own language, history and culture, when you have no idea, and then going on to spout your own flavour of ignorant BS. Considering Zionism was only started in the late 19th century, I don't see how Zionists had anything to do with the origins of Aramaic.