The high street retailer H&M is back in deep waters as it has withdrawn children\u2019s socks from its sales after customers have complained the pattern resembles the Arabic spelling of \u2018Allah\u2019 written upside down.<\/p>\n
They H&M socks shows a Lego workman figure holding a jackhammer<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for H&M said: “At H&M we always aim to offer products that we believe our customers will appreciate.<\/p>\n
“The print on this sock represents a Lego figurine, any other meaning is entirely coincidental and we apologise if this motif has offended anyone.”<\/p>\n
It was only earlier this month, a children’s hoodie bearing the slogan ‘Coolest Monkey in the Jungle’ was modelled by a young black boy on their website.<\/p>\n
The decision behind the photo was labelled as ‘racist’ and ‘disgusting’ and the hoodie was subsequently pulled from stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The high street retailer H&M is back in deep waters as it has withdrawn children\u2019s socks from its sales after customers have complained the pattern resembles the Arabic spelling of \u2018Allah\u2019 written upside down. They H&M socks shows a Lego workman figure holding a jackhammer A spokesperson for H&M said: “At H&M we always aim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,283,112],"tags":[754],"class_list":["post-25521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-top-news","category-top-stories","tag-hm-socks-resembles-sign-of-allah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}