“Nike has produced the Nike Air Max 270 shoe with the script logo on the sole resembling the word Allah in Arabic, which will surely be trampled, kicked and become soiled with mud or even filth ...

In 1997, sportswear giant Nike was forced to withdraw a design for its Nike Air basketball trainers after some customers claimed the stylised script resembled the Arabic rendering of Allah.

According to the petition, the Air Max logo looks very similar to the Arabic script for "Allah." "It is outrageous and appalling of Nike to allow the name of God on a shoe," the petition reads.