Does Coca-Cola allow personalized cans to say "Allah Loves You" but not "Jesus Loves You"? No, that's not true: Neither phrase is allowed on custom cans that customers can order from the online Coca-Cola Store. The company's website states that names and phrases may be rejected if they are trademarked, political, religious or could be seen as offensive.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X, formerly Twitter, on September 24, 2024, with the can in the graphic featuring the phrase "Allah loves you." The post's caption said:
BREAKING: Apparently Coca Cola doesn't support its Christian customers. You're allowed to put any religious name on your custom can, except Jesus.
This alone should be reason alone to boycott Coca Cola. Why should we support a company that is anti Christian?
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Wed Sep 25 16:00:44 2024 UTC)
The social media post implies that Christians are being discriminated against while people of other faiths are allowed to share their personalized messages.
The first image in the post shows a can of Coke, purportedly "PENDING APPROVAL" on the Coca-Cola Store website with the phrase "Allah loves you." Next to it is a screenshot of the rejected phrase "Jesus loves you."
Fake
The "PENDING APPROVAL" image posted on X was fabricated. While it looks very similar to a can awaiting approval on the company website (archived here), the fabricators got it wrong. The text on the custom can should not say "PENDING APPROVAL," but "PENDING REVIEW," as it did when Lead Stories submitted the line "Harry loves Sally." You can see the faux preview below (left) next to the real one (right):
(Source: X and Coca-Cola Store screenshots taken on Wed Sep 25 2024 UTC)
To test the assertion that the Coca-Cola Store (archived here) was accepting "Allah loves you," but not "Jesus loves you," Lead Stories submitted both phrases. Neither one was allowed. The same was true of the lines "God loves you" and "Buddha loves you." The website's explanation for the rejections appears below:
Looks like the name you requested is not approved. Names and phrases may not be approved if they are trademarked, political in nature, names of countries, celebrities, religious figures, as well as anything that could be considered offensive for other reasons. Oftentimes, a name might be accepted if you add a last name to the submission.
We worked hard to get this right but if you think we should reconsider your suggestion, please contact us at [email protected] and we will review this system decision.
Allah, Jesus, Buddha and God
Here are the four phrases Lead Stories submitted to the Coca-Cola Store that were rejected, based on the company's customization policy:
(Source: Coca-Cola Store screenshots taken on Wed Sep 25 2024 UTC)
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At the time this was written, Sportskeeda had reviewed the same claim.
Additional Lead Stories fact checks of claims about Coca-Cola and related company products can be read here.
