Taking a leaf out of the Islamic State's destructive playbook, the leading German retailer Lidl removed Christian crosses from its products. The retailer airbrushed Christian Greek orthodox symbols from its Greek food packaging to avoid "offending."

The supermarket’s Greek food range carries the images of the famous Anastasis Church in Santorini, Greece. The featured images, however, do not show the crosses on the top of the historic dome or the surrounding buildings.

Lidl, headquartered in Germany, has 10,000 stores across Europe. The company is hoping to bring its retail operations to the US this year.

The UK newspaper Independent has the story:

Lidl has come under fire for editing a cross at the top of a church out of an image it uses on the packaging for its own-brand range of Greek-style food.

The supermarket’s Eridanous range features a picture of the well known Anastasis Church on the island of Santorini. A small white cross can usually be seen on top of the church’s blue dome.

But it has been deliberately removed from images on the packaging on a variety of Greek products which have been sold across the company’s European markets for 10 years.

Angry customers have taken to the brand’s Facebook page to lodge their complaints.

“Lidl removes cross from its food to avoid offending others,” reported the British newspaper Daily Mail. “Lidl has defended its decision to airbrush Christian symbols from its packaging, claiming the supermarket wants to remain 'religiously neutral.’”

The principal of "religiously neutrality" at Lidl stores, as you might have guessed correctly, applies only to Christian religious symbols. Some shoppers in the UK complained that Halal meat products at Lidl stores still show Islamic minarets, a religious symbol associated with Islam.

Europe’s corporations, media giants and political elite are bending over backwards to avoid offending the "others," which is shorthand for Europe’s growing Muslim population. If the Islamic State prefers to sledgehammer or blow up the Christian symbols it can lay its hands on, the Western virtue-signalers will police language and Photoshop images to attain the same Sharia-compliance.