10-20-2008, 01:15 PM
We lived in Oman, a moderate Muslim country, from early 1992 through 1995. While we were there someone discovered that a certain brand of tires that had been fitted on Mitsubishi Pajeros (Monteros here) made a pattern that they felt looked like the Arabic word for "Allah". Believing that to be sacrilegious, the government required the Mitsubishi dealer to replace all those tires at no cost with new ones without the offending tread pattern, regardless of how new or old they were.