CAIRO (AP) - The Coca Cola Company and its products a lot of criticism by various sources on a variety of reasons including the negative effects of such products on health, the environment, the use of pesticides in large quantities in its products, the practice of labor exploitation and many more reasons. Not a few of the reasons that brought the company is facing lawsuits and create controversy.
The more controversy there is the logo of Coca Cola products. Read the logo in the mirror or inverted, in Arabic script, what you can? The source of a campaign in Egypt accused the largest soft drink is over offend Islam because of the famous logo is seen saying: "No to Mohamed. No to Mecca "(No to Muhammad. No to Mecca).
Local officials said that Coca-Cola campaign originated from the Internet in January. In the last month, many leaflets distributed in mosques and schools, invite customers to boycott the soft drink on the grounds that the drinks are destroying their religion.
Maulana Kalbe Jawwad, a religious head of the Shias, said: "This is an affront to God. We will ask Muslims in this country and around the world to boycott these products until the company pulled the words that offend them.
Maulana said that he would ask all Muslims to spread the message of practitioners tentangn logo "is highly offensive".
Strengthen the establishment of Maulana, S.R. Azmi Nadvi, Arabic scholar and headmaster of the famous Nadwa College in Lucknow, said that the words are "contrary to our religion". "I have seen it (the logo) and I am sure that the logo is emncemarkan which is considered sacred," he added.
He said the issue will now be brought to the Muslim Personal Law Board and the Arab Muslim World League in Mecca.
For more than a few days, Coca-Cola logo has become a byword throughout the city. Bottles examined carefully as you have never seen the bottle before. But now Coca-Cola, which said that "the drink is enjoyed by more than one billion Muslims", fight back. Troubled by the possibility of turning resistance of the perceived insult, drinks are negotiating with one of the religious figures of the most senior of Egypt, Sheikh Nasser Farid Wassel, who put the 114-year-old logo before a panel of religious experts.
"Trademarks are not changed since the logo was designed until now," came the reply. "The logo is written in a foreign language and not in Arabic, and this proves that the trademark does not injure Islam or Muslims directly or indirectly."
Coca-Cola has equipped its sales staff with a copy of the ruling sheikhs to show attention to customers.
But the manager of external affairs of the company, Mahmoud Hamdy, said that so far sales are not affected. Ahmed Abdul Aziz, a construction worker who drink Coca-Cola two or three bottles per day, holding a bottle of the drink in front of the mirror of a parked motorcycle. "It is true that you can see it," he said. "But I will not give it now. I have been drinking it for years without any problems. "Two years ago, a similar campaign directed against Fanta, accusing him of saying" No to God "(not to God). The protest ended after a few weeks.
Coca-Cola rumors coincided with a far more serious campaign against Syria on a novel by the author, Haidar Haidar, called the Feast Seaweed bam, in which one character describes God as a "failed artist".
Although the book was first published in 1983, an Islamic daily proactive launch attacks last month, accusing the novel for the insults against God and described the book as an insult to Muslims is worse than the Arab defeat by Israel in 1967, a shameful thing that can only be removed "by blood".
The paper also gives the names and addresses of the officials of Ministry of Culture of Egypt, which reprinted the book, from what many viewed as an incitement to murder. On May 8, students of religious rioting in protest over the book was the worst for years.Coca Cola is also one of the Jewish-owned products that some time ago also got around a global boycott of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip that killed thousands of people.
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