McDonald's provides a reason for boycotting them

The German branch of McDonald's has been employing "halal" advertising for Ramadan (via World Net Daily):

Given these sensitivities, McDonald’s launched an outdoor advertising campaign that uses electronic billboards to depict food in the ads after sunset, which is when Muslims end their daily fast during Ramadan. Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset at this time. The billboards use a technology that can detect when the sun goes down at night, triggering the platform to reintroduce the depiction of food in the ads.

Advertising geeks think this is the height of cleverness. They have framed the ad strategy as emphasizing “thoughtfulness” over “temptation” in how to treat the concept of Muslim fasting.

Other major advertisers in places where there is a significant Muslim population tend to feature Islam’s crescent moon in their ads, but not much more than that.

McDonald’s, rather than decide to take that approach, or to stop all advertising during the day, chose to feature product packaging without food during the day, in a very high-end way by ad standards. So, as you walk by a digital billboard during daytime, the ad shows you an empty red fries container. Come back at night, and the container is filled with McDonald’s French fries. [...]

Muslims may be a minority in Germany, but politically, they have power, and they are more than vocal. Get on the wrong side of Islam, and a violent response is a very real possibility. By working to become Islam’s favorite fast-food chain in Germany, McDonald’s could be hoping to buy a certain amount of goodwill with the demographic so that it not only makes money but also gets a pass at some point down the road when Muslims are upset about something else.

This marketing strategy is no different than when a lot of major brands went all “Black Lives Matter” in 2020. They wanted to buy special dispensation. That could be a possibility here.

Unfortunately, former premier Angela Merkel's machinations in the past decade have undoubtably seen to it the figures of Islamofascists are much higher at this point. That aside, no matter where this is in the world, it's reason enough to boycott McDonald's so long as they're not willing to ensure their foreign branches don't succumb to this atrocious tactic any more than others in the USA. Yet it's sadly a foregone conclusion their USA branches are also willing to do this, and if so, we honestly don't need their services.