“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.

More than a century after its discovery in a ninth century woman’s grave, an engraved ring has revealed evidence of close contacts between Viking Age Scandinavians and the Islamic world.

(Great point! Just ask Pussy Riot.) Frankly, the presence of the Arabic script for God didn’t make much sense in the first place if the clip is supposed to take place during the time of ancient ...