There appears to be a controversy brewing around Google’s custom logo in honor of Veterans’ Day.
The shrill accusation that I’ve started to see pop up on blogs (which seem mostly to have a “Christian” or Arch-Conservative bent) is that there is a Muslim crescent hiding sinisterly behind the American flag. The accused implications being thrown out there include (but, I am sure they’re not limited to):
- The setting of the sun on the USA and the rise of Islam.
- Google is trying to make some sort of “secret” statement that they’re all pro-Radical Islam.
- Obama, the secret Muslim that he is, forced Google to do it.
- It’s part of the Red/Communist logo. [Added: 2:38pm]
One guy, ironically on a Google-hosted forum, said something about the “obvious extra space” that they’ve added to make it stick out that way.
My Answer & Rebuttal
- Calm down. There’s no conspiracy. If there was, Google would be the worst conspiracy-planner ever – they just outed themselves on the most visited site on the internet.
- The spacing is the same:
Basic Google logo overlaid on today's special logo.
- Google is playing with the illustration in the same way that they always do by making things line up to give a hinting of their name. The pole representing the L and the flag filling in for the top of the lowercase E.
- [Added 2:46pm] It would be interesting for Google to be so secretly promoting Islam overtly, since they failed to create a special logo for Eid, Islam’s most important feast day.
That’s all. If there’s still an issue with this, I don’t want to trouble you an more; you probably need to spend some more time shoring up the supplies in your bomb shelter and improving on your tin-foil hat design.
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