As Jihad Watch noted in September, the German supermarket chain Lidl recently did this also. Europe is voluntarily divesting itself of its own culture and identity, so as not to appear “Islamophobic” before the Muslim newcomers. But of course, there will be no vacuum. Europe will have a new culture and identity, one that derives from a belief system that has led to the removal of crosses for centuries. And it’s coming sooner than anyone thinks.
“Nestlé Removes Christian Cross from Greek Yogurt Packaging,” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, October 15, 2017:
Joining a growing trend in Europe to abolish Christian imagery to avoid offending other “sensibilities,” Nestlé has removed the image of a Christian cross from its Greek yogurt packaging featuring an Orthodox church on the island of Santorini.
Whereas in real life the blue dome of the iconic Anastasis church is surmounted by a white cross, the image of the church used for publicity has been photo-shopped to remove the offending Christian symbol.
In eliminating the cross, Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company, has mimicked the choice of supermarket giant Lidl for its similar packaging. To justify its decision, Lidl said they were expunging the cross so as “not to hurt sensibility of other religions.”
The doctored images of the church were used for the packaging of Lidl’s Eridanous brand Greek-style yogurt — an in-house label which also includes a range of feta cheese, moussaka, and pistachio products.
A spokesman for the supermarket chain, which has hundreds of stores throughout Europe and the United Kingdom, explained the modifications by saying: “We avoid the use of religious symbols because we do not wish to exclude any religious beliefs.”
The spokesman added: “We are a company that respects diversity and this is what explains the design of this packaging.”
The irony, of course, is that the removal of the cross is a destruction of diversity, by refusing to acknowledge the historical, cultural, and religious importance of the symbol. The company is, in fact, fighting exclusion by excluding Christian symbolism….
Rosewood11 says
Yet another reason not to buy Nestle products!!!
dan celli says
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING. I’M GOING TO LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEIR OFFENDING CHRISTIANS. AND BOWING TO THE ‘RELIGION OF PEICES.’ GERMANS,”DON’T BUY, DON’T BUY
NESTLES HATEFUL OMISSION !!!”
Your Nana says
Won’t see Nestle’s Quik in our kitchen again.
What fools the Islamists must think us, and rightfully so, if we do nothing.
Lucia Bartoli says
So how do they feel about Islamic cultists stabbing/murdering a COPTIC BISHOP in Egypt (a few miles from Cairo). Now they try to say the man was crazy…in opposition to his neighbors, most of whom are islamists. They stated he was very much in his right mind. So now even yogurt will have issues. I’d like to start a company and call it Jesus’ Yogurt…wow. What if a guy’s name is Jesus as in Spanish. If i was the yogurt outfit, I’d refuse to sell those who opposed my right to the logo/name I choose. I think we could also market “Confederate Blend Coffee” in the U S A.
WTH is wrong with people?!
Richard says
With Islam nothing ‘wrong’ with them Re hypersensitivity to imagery and syntax – part of invasion. Oh yeah, we are at war btw
Peter Buckley says
Austrian election:
Huge gains for “far-right” Freedom party could lead to co-alition government with centre-right.
Centre-left “in decline”:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/865310/austrian-election-coalition-fighting-far-right-win-power
gravenimage says
Glad to hear this.
Alice says
Good news, indeed!
kessler says
A man not controlled by political correctness and fear of the religion of peace, bravo!
https://kurier.at/politik/inland/oevp-chef-kurz-nur-in-islamischen-kindergaerten-gibt-es-integrationsprobleme/271.594.663
JawsV says
Muslims never did get to conquer Europe in previous centuries but in the 21st Europe is practically handing them the prize.
gravenimage says
Oh, Muslims conquered large chunks of it at one time, including Spain, Portugal, parts of southern France and Italy, Sicily, Greece, and most of the Balkans.
But now they are making shocking inroads without most Europeans even realizing they are being conquered.
JawsV says
What I meant was wholly conquered for Islam like the Middle East and North Africa. The Moors occupied Spain and Portugal from 711 to 1492. Then they were finally expelled. The Muslim invasion of Sicily began in 827 and conquered in 902. When the Normans arrived in the 11th century the Arabs lost Sicily. So, Europe was not wholly conquered by Islam. That had to wait apparently until the 21st century with Europe just handing their countries over to the Muslims.
gravenimage says
Very true, Jaws. A lot of brave people had to fight and die to protect Europe from Muslim invasion, and to regain our lands that they had conquered by them.
And now–insanely–many Europeans are handing their great nations over to ravening Muslims without even appearing to know what they are doing.
mike9a says
No Nestle!
No Nike!
https://imgur.com/r/The_Donald/giVZKHD
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
IC XC NIKA.
LeftisruiningCanada says
NIKAsbar anyone?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Fully agree with your post though, despite the attempt at humor above
gravenimage says
🙂
AleX says
In hoc signo vinces!
Wellington says
Just add Nestle to the coward list.
Lots of cowards in the West today. Islam profits by non-Islamic cowards.
Always has. Always will. It is a modus opeandi of Mo’s twisted creed.
Bob says
Who actually owns Nestle? Has it been taken over, stealthily, by mucklims?
gravenimage says
Nestle is the largest food company in the world, Bob. Definitely *not* owned by Muslims–but, it seems, all too willing to pander to them.
No Fear says
Highlight diversity by printing culturally enriching scenes of European women being raped and murdered by refugees.
No Fear says
Obviously I am being sarcastic…..
Brian Hoff says
Fake new spead by than Canadian ngo to increase fear of Islam.
gravenimage says
The appalling “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–is claiming that the only report of Muslims raping Infidels in Europe comes from “than Canadian ngo”.
Of course, this is absurd.
The epidemic of Muslim rape in Europe has been reported by every major European and international news agency. It is rampant.
Of course “DefenderofIslam” knows this–he just hopes that we do not.
Lydia says
Then I have removed nestle from my shopping list.
And the cross will ever be around my neck… regardless of who is ‘offended’ by it!
If they are offended, then I am even more offended by them!
So now they have to remove all of their symbols for me.
RichardL says
They deny Christ, we stop buying their stuff.
I shopped twice a week at Lidl – stopped after their packaging hit the shops.
Bob says
I’m deeply offended by the crescent and star – remove them ASAP or I’ll riot in the streets!
Bob says
And I’ll carry on wearing my lapel cross! Will Nestle remove the crescent and star from any picture of a mosque which happens to appear on their products? I doubt it – so, another customer lost. Nestle. blame your cringing to the mucklims!
dan celli says
SO IT’S OK TO OFFEND CHRISTIANS BUT NOT MUSLIMS. SICK,SICK,SICK !!!
MUSLIM CULTURE IS BACKWARDS;CRUELITY TO WOMEN, JAILING OR MURDERING GAY’S
. CHRISTIANS FOR THE MOST PART DON’T DO THAT. IN OTHER WORDS,BAD IS GOOD AND GOOD IS BAD. GOOD BY EUROPE !!!
GPT says
Isn’t this about market forces? Many muslims are from yoghurt eating countries, so these companies want to keep their sales up, just like the Islam pandering politicians who want to keep their votes up.
They’ll both find out the have backed a loser.
Jen says
There are still more non-muslims. Boycott! Boycott! Boycott! and write to these companies and say so.
Unless they are being threatened with harm, the decision makers will take note if enough people boycott and write to them!
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Jen, Jay Boo, and Linde!
Agent 111 says
Muslims I know say they don’t get offended by such things. It’s the liberal agenda using Muslims as the excuse. My Muslim friends join in Christmas celebrations and say they’re being used by Elites. They’re fully aware of Masonic illuminati agendas and say not to be fooled.
gravenimage says
Your apparent idea that all Muslims are liberals who happily celebrate holidays with Christian friends and that all Jihad is actually pulled off by “Masonic illuminati agents” in order to make Islam look bad is *much* mistaken.
Why don’t you ask your Muslim friends why no one can celebrate Christmas openly in most of Dar al Islam? Why don’t you ask them what their opinion is of the existence of Israel and the Jews? Why don’t you ask them if they would fight alongside you to prevent the imposition of Shari’ah law?
Then get back to us here…
Agha Ali Arkhan says
How come we have Islamic symbols on packaging showing contents are Halal? And we’re paying the Buggers to do it!
pfwag says
Isn’t women runnung around in burqas even more offensive?
fbijihadidefender says
Nes”t”lé, why don’t they just remove the “t” ?
gravenimage says
Nestlé removes Christian cross from Greek yogurt packaging
……………………….
More sickening dhimmitude.
Tama says
And a minority rule 🙁
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15
”
Now consider this manifestation of the dictatorship of the minority. In the United Kingdom, where the (practicing) Muslim population is only three to four percent, a very high number of the meat we find is halal. Close to seventy percent of lamb imports from New Zealand are halal. Close to ten percent of the chain Subway carry halal-only stores (meaning no pork), in spite of the high costs from the loss of business of nonpork stores. The same holds in South Africa where, with the same proportion of Muslims, a disproportionately higher number of chicken is Halal certified. But in the U.K. and other Christian countries, halal is not neutral enough to reach a high level, as people may rebel against forceful abidance to other’s religious norms
“
gravenimage says
All grimly true. This is “Islamoforming” the West.
Jen says
Halal certification imposed on food producers is a mega million dollar source of income for MB front groups.
The money goes to fund terrorism. I avoid anything and everything halal. They hate us and I wouldn’t put it past them to spit in the food or worse.
gravenimage says
All true, Jen.
Brian Hoff says
The lamb industrie went out of business went under but the muslim people save it from going under in the united state muslim make up to 70 to 75 percent of they buyer.
gravenimage says
Muslims make up less than 1% of the population in the US.
*Of course* “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–would pretend that the numbers are much higher.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Which begs the question, what will certain countries that have crosses in their flags do regarding those flags when/if they become Mohammadin?
gravenimage says
Britain, Sweden, and Switzerland will all need new flags.
There have already been dhimmis in the UK claiming that flying the Union Jack is “racist”
Jen says
Exactly. How long will it be until they are demanding that the Union Jack be changed because the cross is too offensive.
Bob says
Yes, Jen, I remember a case a couple of years back when a Nigerian mucklim family objected, officially, to a neighbour’s flying the Union flag from his house on the grounds that it had a cross on it! They were greatly offended! Send ’em back to their mucklim paradise!
Matthieu Baudin says
The Company displays great confidence in the new Postmodern Moral Order that it sees as supplanting the European Christian Tradition. ‘In with the new and out with the old’ – this is the mentality behind the broom sweeping through Europe’s social institutions. The calls for ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ are so broad, inane and vacuous that if pursued wholeheartedly and legislated, it is no exaggeration to judge that the Organs of State will become inoperable. The back door is wide open for the wolf to enter.
gravenimage says
The Muslim wolf has already slipped in the door, and brought millions of his fellow ravening wolves with him…
Matthieu Baudin says
Yes Graven, it looks like the doors been open too long and some of the wolves are in with many more to follow. They want to tear out our entrails and we offer our throats to appease them.
mortimer says
Every diversity except Christian diversity. Diversity and rule.
Jen says
Like him or not, Trump has paved the way for ALL like-minded believers in Judeo-Christian (perhaps I should say peaceful non-muslim) values and European and North American cultures.
It is critical that we all support him. He’s a fighter. Not a smooth operator I guess but I love his pluck. Not a traitor like Obama and Clinton; not an appeaser either. He’s not afraid to fight the leftist current and call out our biggest threat…”islalmic terrorism”
We MUST keep this going!!!
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Islamic yogurt news:
https://freedomdaily.com/stealth-jihad-davos-chobanis-muslim-ceo-demands-hire-muslim-refugees/
(Why is this article undated? Who is the reporter?)
mike ryan says
I’m a somewhat traditional Jew. In my home are the following items: A Swiss Army watch, a Swiss Army blanket, a Swiss Army knife, a Pendelton Indian blanket, etc. All items feature a cross. Big deal. I can not understand the cravenly servile attitudes of modern-day Europeans.
Michael Copeland says
“SWISS companies removing cross-shaped Swiss flag logo from their products sold in Muslim countries”
http://barenakedislam.com/2011/10/10/swiss-companies-removing-cross-shaped-swiss-flag-logo-from-their-products-sold-in-muslim-countries/
gravenimage says
Yes, Mike–only Muslims are “offended” by this.
zachary says
I do not understand why Europe caves in & gives these Barbaric Parasites anything & everything they want no questions asked no input allowed from the European countries instead of appeasing these creatures send them back to where they came from.
JawsV says
I have a CD called “Santorini Splendor.” On the cover is a photo of the blue-domed Anastasis church. Yes, it’s got the white cross. Are the Nestle people going to knock on my door at 2 AM and demand the CD? Truly, I wouldn’t put it past them.
MFritz says
Self-castration doesn’t help, Nestlé & Lidl. Besides, as long as your yogurt isn’t “halal” they won’t buy it anyway.
JawsV says
I looked it up. Nestle’s halal line is only in Australia.
trisha says
Nestles offer halal Easter eggs in Australia. Go figure.
Benedict says
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” –
Theologically speaking the conflict of the Christian world with the Muslim World is the age old conflict of grace vs law. Grace is anathema to Sharia and vice versa. The salvation of a Muslim martyr (= murderer) and his family is in Islamic theology granted as a matter of merits. This is the ultimate perversion of the Christian faith and here the word infidel/kuffar ironically apply to Muslims to the shame and chagrin of the adherents to the teachings of the false Prophet Muhammad – eternal damnation be upon him!
gravenimage says
Oh, good grief. Jews and even some Christian denominations emphasize law rather than grace.
To pretend that this is purely a theological difference between Christianity and Islam and ignore the bloody savagery of Islam is just strange.
Benedict says
Islamic savagery and terror is profoundly connected to the insistence on Sharia, G.
gravenimage says
This is true, Benedict.
But the most objectionable thing about Shari’ah to my mind is not that it represents law, but that the law is so savagely bloody, oppressive, and inequitable.
Agha Ali Arkhan says
Dear Benedict: Wonderful comment. Straight forward and understandable. They are pulling out the rug under their feet. Fight the good fight.
PKG says
Frankly, it’s becoming more and more of a struggle to find non-halal or halal free products- a deeply depressing sign of companies stooping to servitude and submission.
The Greek church is NOT a Greek church without the cross- they have appropriated a distorted image- where are the PC police to defend that?
Next they will demand that the Greek flag also remove its cross and replace it with the crescent!!!
May Athena and Zeus strike them down!!
Bob says
PKG – the mucklims’re insulting the Greek Orthodox Church, via Nestle!
John Moloney says
It’s demography, guys.
Back in 1970 Muslims were 10% of the world population. Now they are closing in on 25%.
Nestle like the others has an eye on that market and they think that Muslims will not buy stuff with a cross on it.
Saipan Sam says
The Swiss.. Ever vigilant in protecting it’s borders has let in a virulent cancer. The parasites will suck them dry while defiling all that the Swiss hold dear.
Idiots. Fools… Worse.
John Forbes says
MORE SHARIA COMPLIANCE FROM THE COWARDS IN EUROPE ! THE EU IS GETTING EVERYONE TO BE SHARIA COMPLIANT BECAUSE THE LEFT DOES NOT SEE DEMOCRACY ( THAT THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN ANYWAY ) WORTH FIGHTING FOR OR EVEN TALKING ABOUT & NOR DO THEY BELIEVE IN FREE SPEECH !
THE MARXIST ALLIANCE WITH ISLAM & THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ARE ALL IN TUNE WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE & THE CHRISTIAN DESTRUCTION AS THEY PUSH FOR THE CREATION OF THE BEAUROCRATIC SUPER STATE WITH COMMITTEES RUNING THIS & ALL COUNTRIES HAVE TO FOLLOW THE RULES WITH NOT A SINGLE SAY THEMSELVES & PEOPLE ACTUALLY SIGNED UP FOR THIS INSANITY ????
Edgar says
I can just imagine companies based in Saudi Arabia, Iran or other Islamic country removing any Islamic imagery from their products!!!
s says
we are losing our nations due to fear of being called a name….. ARE YOU SERIOUS?????
Japetto Donatelli says
“not to hurt sensibility of other religions.”…
Bullsh*t, they are concerned only for one religion here, the one that kills or extorts you for not being a member. With all the Halal certification going on under our noses we should care about a little cross on a package? The only thing this pandering accomplishes is to encourage more intimidation and violence because our capitulation shows them it works.
“We are a company that respects diversity…
No, respecting diversity means everyone respects each others differences in tolerance, this kind of behavior is more like disrespecting diversity. This hypersensitivity over a stylized church image on a package does not encourage diversity, it creates a climate of intolerance for diversity. You can’t claim to be working for diversity while at the same time act in a way that contradicts the minimum requirement for creating a diverse environment. Muslims get halal packaging which is done out of religious sensitivity but at our inconvenience and expense, and according to Pauline Hanson of Australia halal certification is estimated to be “a $3 trillion industry and this money can go to mosques, Islamic schools and it’s even estimated that it can go to terrorism…” Considering this, should Nestle still be concerned about a small church on a package as a cultural symbol?
If diversity means allowing animal cruelty and halal packaging for muslims then it should also allow for a canned image of a church for Greek Heritage, which is fast eroding by the way thanks to muslims. If Nestle truly cared about diversity they would have kept that image to foster an environment that encourages it. But with typical leftist logic they think denying their own right to free expression somehow encourages diversity in thought and action. It doesn’t, it only helps muslims who have no intention of modifying their own culture and religion for us. Bottom line, Nestle has become sharia compliant. There’s no “diversity” in that.
Jedothek says
Perhaps the following is too obvious to need saying, but I think we should reject the theory that westerners are caving in to Islamic influence due to some excessive, guilt-motivated liberalism that thinks we must never give offense. It seems much more likely that the underlying cause is oil money used by Saudis and others in order to buy influence. What other than oil would lead to such exaggerated absurd catering to Islam in preference to other cultures? Follow the money .
gravenimage says
Not everyone who panders to Muslims is being paid by the Saudis to do so, Jedothek.
But clearly Nestle here figured that Muslims would not buy a product with a cross on it, but that Christians would not notice–or at least not complain.
Petrouchka1 says
Just sold my Nestle stock.
carol says
Are they eliminating Islam’s half-moon and star symbol or just making it look like an apple as per the Toronto School Board?
A little off-topic but Stefan Molyneux has another good video (which I think deserves a better title). He mentions the Edmonton attack and Trudeau’s faulty Leftist “logic” regarding “strength in diversity” but then he talks longer about the “card-trick” of peddling GUILT onto self-critical but SELF-CORRECTING Western culture. Ongoing hypocrites profit greatly from general naivety.
What Pisses Me Off About The Edmonton Terrorist Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfj-08fWnZU
Charlie Martel says
The philosopher Zizek rightly says that European atheists are actually still post Christian or socially Christian and so we share the same value system. We need to defend it against Barbarism- time for a consumer boycotts on all these companies that strike against our continent and its values.