Muslims warn Nike about a shoe that steps on Allah's name

The name of Allah is everywhere you look. It's in nature, it's in the sky, in butterflies, it's basically everywhere. Now it's even on the sole of the Nike Air Max 270 running shoe, and boy, that's really angering some practitioners of the religion of peace. In fact, they're spitting mad at Nike for daring to place the holy name of Allah on the sole of a shoe where it meets road, mud, dog crap, you name it.

Literally thousands of people are demanding Nike recall its shoe, saying that the "blasphemous" logo is offensive to Muslims, and you know what can happen when you get some of them angry. [I added the words "some of" to be PC.]

A Change.org petition, which garnered more than 14,000 signatures by mid-day Wednesday, claims that the logo resembles “Allah,” the Arabic word for God, written in Arabic script, the only language Allah knows how to speak, evidently.

Petitioner Saiqa Noreen says the logo “will surely be trampled, kicked and become soiled with mud or even filth.” She's hoping Nike will replace it with the map of Israel instead.

“It is outrageous and appalling of Nike to allow the name of God on a shoe,” Noreen wrote. “This is disrespectful and extremely offensive to Muslim’s and insulting to Islam.”

It also looks like a Hebrew letter

Noreen is also demanding Nike recall the "blasphemous and offensive shoe and all products with the design logo resembling the word Allah from worldwide sales immediately."

A Nike spokesperson told "Today" that the logo is nothing more than a “stylized” version of the Air Max trademark.

Read the wing carefully--do you see it?
Do you see it?

"Nike respects all religions and we take concerns of this nature seriously," the spokesperson said. "The AIR MAX logo was designed to be a stylized representation of Nike's AIR MAX trademark. It is intended to reflect the AIR MAX brand only. Any other perceived meaning or representation is unintentional."

As much as Nike sucks for putting Colin Kaepernick out there as its spokes weasel, I have to believe that they're innocent of intent here, and that Muslims are overreacting, or simply acting like leftists and looking for something to be angry over.

I hope that 2019 will be the year you follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.




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