Although the German supermarket giant Lidl was caught erasing crosses from packaging to show “respect for diversity”:
Searching the company’s product range online appears to show a number of items with are certified as Halal — which is to say, slaughtered in accordance with controversial Islamic religious requirements, so as to be permissible for devout Muslims to eat.
Other Islamic symbols were also discovered on the company’s products. So the “respect for diversity” apparently excludes Christianity. How far will Western nations go to “respect diversity”? It sometimes appears as if there are no limits. Last week, a UK Labor MP was caught re-tweeting a demand that victims of Muslim rape gangs shut up “for the good of diversity.” One risks being deemed “Islamophobic” merely for reporting on the suffering inflicted upon innocent people by Islamic supremacists.
“European Supermarket Erased Crosses From Packaging Because it ‘Respects Diversity’”, by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, September 1, 2017:
German supermarket giant Lidl has been caught doctoring pictures of the iconic Anastasis Church in Santorini, Greece, which appear on some of its products, to erase the crosses which adorn the building.
Images of the world-renowned church were used for the packaging of its Eridanous brand Greek-style yoghurt — an in-house label which also includes a range of feta cheese, moussaka, and pistachio products, according to RTL Info.
A spokesman for the low-cost retailer — which has hundreds of stores throughout Europe and the United Kingdom — justified the Soviet-style alterations by saying: “We avoid the use of religious symbols because we do not wish to exclude any religious beliefs.”
They added: “We are a company that respects diversity and this is what explains the design of this packaging.”
The rationale behind the supermarket’s belief that erasing Christian iconography from Christian religious buildings is “respecting diversity” is left unclear, and its statement that “we avoid the use of religious symbols because we do not wish to exclude any religious beliefs” does not appear to be wholly accurate.
Searching the company’s product range online appears to show a number of items with are certified as Halal — which is to say, slaughtered in accordance with controversial Islamic religious requirements, so as to be permissible for devout Muslims to eat.
Some of these products appear to feature logos featuring minarets or buildings with minarets — Islamic religious architecture from which the ‘call to prayer’ is issued five times a day by a muezzin (crier)….