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Got my pair in from Oneness. I love these! Here’s a quick on feet pic.
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2019, ladies and gentleman.
https://hypebeast.com/2019/1/nike-air-max-720-allah-arabic-script-controversy
UPDATE: HYPEBEAST reached out to Nike for comment, and the sportswear giant responded with the following:
“Nike respects all religions and we take concerns of this nature seriously. The AIR MAX logo was designed to be a stylized representation of Nike’s AIR MAX trademark. It is intended to reflect the AIR MAX brand only. Any other perceived meaning or representation is unintentional.”
Nike is no stranger to controversy and the sportswear giant’s first contention of 2019 centers around the soon-to-be-released Air Max 720. According to a Change.org petitioninitiated by Saiqa Noreen, the “AIR MAX” branding on the new silhouette’s outsole is discomfortingly similar to the word “Allah” in Arabic script.
Perhaps the most sacred word in all of Islam, Allah is the Arabic name for God — a phrase that Nike has been accused of mishandling in the past, first on a billboard in 1996and then on nearly 40,000 pairs of shoes a year later. “It is outrageous and appalling of Nike to allow the name of God on a shoe,” Noreen writes in the body of the petition.
The location of the logo, on the sole of the sneaker, “will surely be trampled, kicked and become soiled with mud or even filth.” Noreen completes the petition with a plea for “Nike to recall this blasphemous and offensive shoe and all products with the design logo resembling the word Allah from worldwide sales immediately.”
Read Noreen’s full complaint on Change.org. Below, view Noreen’s original comparison image of the two phrases.
More recently, Nike was requested to stop selling its Matthew Willaims-designed balaclava due to “gang culture” concerns.
https://hypebeast.com/2019/1/nike-air-max-720-allah-arabic-script-controversy
UPDATE: HYPEBEAST reached out to Nike for comment, and the sportswear giant responded with the following:
“Nike respects all religions and we take concerns of this nature seriously. The AIR MAX logo was designed to be a stylized representation of Nike’s AIR MAX trademark. It is intended to reflect the AIR MAX brand only. Any other perceived meaning or representation is unintentional.”
Nike is no stranger to controversy and the sportswear giant’s first contention of 2019 centers around the soon-to-be-released Air Max 720. According to a Change.org petitioninitiated by Saiqa Noreen, the “AIR MAX” branding on the new silhouette’s outsole is discomfortingly similar to the word “Allah” in Arabic script.
Perhaps the most sacred word in all of Islam, Allah is the Arabic name for God — a phrase that Nike has been accused of mishandling in the past, first on a billboard in 1996and then on nearly 40,000 pairs of shoes a year later. “It is outrageous and appalling of Nike to allow the name of God on a shoe,” Noreen writes in the body of the petition.
The location of the logo, on the sole of the sneaker, “will surely be trampled, kicked and become soiled with mud or even filth.” Noreen completes the petition with a plea for “Nike to recall this blasphemous and offensive shoe and all products with the design logo resembling the word Allah from worldwide sales immediately.”
Read Noreen’s full complaint on Change.org. Below, view Noreen’s original comparison image of the two phrases.
More recently, Nike was requested to stop selling its Matthew Willaims-designed balaclava due to “gang culture” concerns.
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Could you imagine being so attention starved/mentally ill? What a miserable existence some people lead.
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What's all this about on sneakrs?
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New ARG for the 720, i solved it but i don't have an iOS for Snkrs Cam.
What's all this about on sneakrs?
So if anybody wants to try here you go.
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The coordinates point to Nikes Beaverton HQ. Why would Nike have an SNKRS Cam image in their European SNEAKRS app?New ARG for the 720, i solved it but i don't have an iOS for Snkrs Cam.
So if anybody wants to try here you go.
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None of it makes any sense cos the cam doesn't open on android properly either.
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Not sure honestly i just thought it had something to do with snkrs cam since it kinda looks scan-able and i wasn't aware Snkrs cam isn't a thing for Europe, just thought it was iOS Exclusive.
Anybody else get any further?
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You're probably right about it being iOS exclusive. I really don't care for the shoes, but still can't let this go, so somebody please figure it out soon.
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i dont even see that on my snkrs
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you don't know me
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TTS? can you compare sizing with am1, am97? thanksGot my pair in from Oneness. I love these! Here’s a quick on feet pic.
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theres no option for the camera...very confusing
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yeah...but where is the pick up. very weird.
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any one checked out with the Oneness link this week? wondering if I can still get a pair....
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T0INE
formerly toine2983
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In for a triple black pair.
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Yes -- shipped, due in tomorrow.
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Anyone know release dates for the neon green pair and if they will be mens or womens?
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