Fearing Muslims, Coke leaves 'Muhammad' out of marketing campaign

New post on Creeping Sharia   Fearing Muslims, Coke leaves ‘Muhammad’ out of marketing campaign by creeping Posted on May 4, 2013 by creeping Real Islamophobes pre-emptively subject themselves to Islamic sharia law. via Coke leaves Muhammad out of Sweden PR drive – The Local. Coca-Cola said it would have been “too provocative” to include Muhammad in a Swedish publicity campaign in which the US beverage giant replaced its curlicue logo with some of the most common names of young Swedes. As part of a Europe-wide campaign, Swedish consumers will get to buy 115 million Coca-Cola bottles that will be relabeled to be called Daniel, Emma, and Johan, among other names plucked from a list of most common names among young Swedes. Yet despite being among the list of popular names among young men in Sweden, Muhammad isn’t among the names chosen for the Coca-Cola campaign “Symbolically, Coca-Cola is very much associated with the US. We discussed this internally before launching the campaign, and also spoke with the Islamic Association in Sweden,” the company’s Swedish marketing manager Gustaf Wetterwik told the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper. “In the end, we came to the conclusion that it was less provocative not to include the name than to have it on such a US-associated product.” More than 2,000 men are called Muhammad in Sweden, while the alternative spellings Mohammed is used by almost 9,000 and Mohamed by more than 10,000. In comparison, there are 173,243 Johans in the country, while there are more than 71,000 Emmas. Coca-Cola was launched in Sweden in 1953 and the company today employs 800 people in Sweden. 21,000 Muhammad’s in Sweden? The end is nigh. Coke has previously pandered to Muslims. http://wp.me/pbU4v-exu Comment    See all comments   Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/fearing-muslims-coke-leaves-muhammad-out-of-marketing-campaign/     Thanks for flying with WordPress.com