This is not Coca Cola name exaggeration and it’s reflection, etc. You people must have seen Nike sneakers having Allah in Arabic written on it, as I have seen people my self wearing such sneakers and have read articles about it in NYTimes. But following is what surprised me. Is it true that Nike has or planned to do such an advertisement. Here is what I received in email:
Dear brother/Sister in Islam
I am one of the many Muslims who you hurt by Nike’s ad which shows >Muslims prostrating to a woman in one of their brand jeans. I will remind you of what the Company Nike did to Muslims when they portray the name of Allah on one of their sports shoes. The result was that Malaysia, Indonesia and the Gulf states including Saudi Arabia stopped importing Nike products.
If you look carefully you will find that it was after that incident that Nike began to report earnings less than expected on the Wall Street which caused their stock price to tumble. The stock price has not recovered yet. Check it for ourselves. You owe this to your shareholders. If this picture reaches the governments of some of those countries I bet the fate of our company will not be much different from Nike.
I am emailing this letter to as many Muslims I can. Thank you for reading this letter.
Tarek Abou-Ghazala, MD University of Missouri at Columbia
P.S. to all Muslim brothers and sisters who receive this email, please email this letter to as many people as you can. Please donate 15 minutes of your precious time for the sake of Allah.
[This message has been edited by K-2 (edited August 03, 2001).]
>>P.S. to all Muslim brothers and sisters who receive this email, please email this letter to as many people as you can. Please donate 15 minutes of your precious time for the sake of Allah.
Do you know what is spam? Learn to spot a spam when you see one. Any Tom, Dick and Harry can come up with an image and a passionate email to go along with it. And guess what, folks start spreading it as if re-confirming the last available seat in paradise for themselves.
What it does? It just eats away the finite resources of internet by bogus messages floating everywhere. These include emotional blackmail articles and pics circulated by muslims and other religious groups, medical help provided to a faceless child in a remote American town and other such tricks.
People excitedly forward these messages to all the poor souls on their address books and press "Send"! Mission Accomplished. :)
Needless to add, that the major butt of all these 'threats' is Microsoft. It is Bill Gates who will give you a few thousand dollars if you pass a useless message to 20 people, it will be Microsoft which will disontinue MSN Hotmail if you don't send a rediculous email to 25 people. A child will die if you don't forward a passionate appeal to 50 people or a shaikh in Medina will curse you if you don't spread his dream to 100 people... the list goes on.
I mean, how guillable can people be?
ps. I am very interested in knowing how many of you actually got that Ericsson WAP enabled phone which would be yours if you forward a message to 25 people or how many lost their Hotmail account because they didn't forward an appeal from Microsoft to 30 of their buddies. Did any of you actually die because of that curse of the Shaikh in Medina and you didn't forward it to 15 people in the next 20 minutes?
Grow up, folks.. pls!
[This message has been edited by Pristine (edited August 03, 2001).]
The reason I posted that picture was to confirm from you people whether it's true or not, as anyone can spread the rumor. and now as some have confirmed that it's a fake so mitti pao