If the shoes said "Fuck Allah" or "Allah was a pedophile", I would buy them as a collector's item.
Insulting religion is not a crime. We should be able to make fun of STUPID ideas no matter how crazy they are.
I've read that for automobiles, considerable study is done on whether a new proposed name offends anyone in any particular language. Because the cars are sold worldwide and nobody wants a car which has a name which is, say, "SHIT" in that language.
Should Nike pay attention in such a matter? Sure.
But how far? Here the objection is to a part of the phrase taken out of context and said to mean something different than intended. I'm curious what an average muslim would think of this matter.
Yes, I've read the same thing and found it incredibly funny that some car names happen to mean female genitals in some countries, or that Mitsubishi Pajero means wanker in Spanish. Even though some of these names were later changed in target countries, they didn't do anything about the rest of the world, which ultimately lead to people being offered pussy wagons and wankers.
As for the Muslims, they get very easily offended. Like that story with Red Cross, which is a very well known organization that helps people all around the world, but the Muslims felt offended by the sign of the cross and demanded it to be changed to crescent moon.
I have to buy a pair of those shoes before they take them down.
