Optus has removed a new advertisement written in Arabic from a Sydney shopping centre after shop staff were allegedly threatened in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.
The telecommunications company has been fielding enraged comments on Facebook over the past 24 hours and has had to explain that Islam is a religion, not a country, to those threatening to quit Optus over the posters.
Angry customers denounced the ads, which have recently been unveiled in some shopping centres, including at Casula in Sydney’s south-west. Some said it was inappropriate to exhibit the posters after the attacks in Paris last week. Optus has now removed three of the ads from Casula Mall, and it is understood police are investigating threats to staff.
(Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Online )