This is so ridiculous. The way “Allah” is written in Arabic, one can see it in almost any up-and-down pattern. Some years ago, a Muslim in the UK flew into a rage and started issuing threats because he thought the swirl design on Burger King’s ice cream looked like “Allah.” And in the 1990s, Muslim groups strong-armed Nike into dropping a line of shoes that bore a pattern they thought resembled “Allah.”

H&M should not have caved. They should have said, “Don’t be silly. It’s a puff of smoke,” and moved on. But no one ever stands up to Islamic victimhood pressure groups. That would, apparently, be “Islamophobic.”

“Sweden: Swedish clothing brand H&M apologises for ‘Allah’ writing on socks,” Muslim News, January 28, 2018