Thousands of people have asked Nike to remove its Air Max 270 line from the market because it offended Muslims

Thousands of people have asked Nike take off your shoes Air Max 270 because they considered that the design of the logo offended Muslims.

A request of Change.org, which obtained more than 10,000 signatures in two weeks, ensures that the logo looks like the word "Wing" (Allah in English).

Saiqa Noreen, who started the petition, he wrote that the logo "will surely be trampled, hit and tinged with mud or even earth". He also demanded the mark "tighter control of products before they are placed on the market"

"It's outrageous and scary that Nike allows the name of God in a shoe. It's disrespectful and extremely offensive to Muslims and insulting to IslamNoreen said.

A Nike spokesman told the newspaper "Today" that the logo is a version "stylized" brand Air Max.

The company added that "Nike respects all religions and we take concerns of this nature seriously."

"The Air Max logo was designed to be a stylized representation of the Nike Air Max brand. It is designed to reflect the Air Max brand only. Any other meaning or representation perceived is involuntary.

According to the company, they also explained that "is a stylized representation of the marks and any other meaning or perceived representation is not intentional".

The location of the new logo that Nike has introduced is in the sole and if the name is reversed, then we can see the supposed similarity of the word in English and the word in Arabic which is "Wing", it's God.

This is not the first time that the company is accused of offensive images, according to "Today". Nike stopped selling a line of shoes in 1997 by a flame-shaped logo that, according to the critics, resembled "Allah".

Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights organization also filed complaints about the Nike logo in the last weeks.

"Several members of the community contacted us to talk about the design"said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR's Director of Communications, today.

Hooper says it's not the first time that a company is accused of use an Islamic script in their products.

"We have treated several cases over the years. One of the accused cases also was a jeans manufacturer to whom he added a drawing, but it turned out that they are verses of the Koran in Arabic, "he said.

"They do not necessarily see a problem, they may not even know what it was; It was just a good design for them, but obviously it's completely inappropriate do that kind of thing. "

Complaints against Nike occur a few weeks after Amazon will recall more than a dozen products, including bath mats and mats referring to the Prophet Muhammad.

According to the thought of the Muslim cultureshow the sole of a shoe is the maximum of contempt And this implies that you want to hurt someone with, in addition to the fact that the shoe is dirty by constant contact with the ground.