Sharia Alert from AFP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
Move over Barbie, veiled is beautiful. The physical ideal of Muslim girls increasingly includes the hijab, as evidenced by toy shops' best-selling doll "Fulla" and the string of showbiz stars opting to cover up.The dark-eyed and olive-skinned Fulla has replaced her American rival's skimpy skirts with more modest "outdoor fashion" and Barbie's luxuriant blonde mane with an Islamic veil.
"Fulla sells better because it is closer to our Arab values: she never reveals a leg or an arm," says Tarek Mohammed, chief salesman at a Toys'R'Us branch in Mohandessin, one of Cairo's more upmarket neighbourhoods.
The Arab answer to Barbie has been selling like hot cakes for Eid Al-Adha, the most important holiday in the Muslim calendar, not least because it is cheaper than its American rival, although both are made in China.
Fulla is not the first Islamic doll but none of her predecessors have taken the regional market by storm like she has, selling some two million since its creation two years ago by the Emirates-based NewBoy Design Studio.
Saudi Arabia's religious police had then just banned "Barbie the Jewish doll", whose "revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West."...
Fulla also has two female friends, Yasmine and Nada, with lighter hair.
But she is still single as no plans appear to be afoot for marketing an Islamic equivalent of Ken, as giving her a boyfriend would be seen inappropriate in conservative Muslim cultures.
But a mass marketing campaign, including TV commercials and dozens of by-products ranging from cereals to school stationery, is not the only reason for Fulla's ever-growing popularity.
The sartorial evolution of little Muslim girls' toy dolls mirrors a broader phenomenon of Islamisation in Arab culture and society, which is no longer incompatible with hip and glamour.
Excuse me for asking, but aren't graven images (i.e. dolls) haram? Isn't Saudi Arabia confiscating teddy bears from British airline hostesses? I would be interested however in seeing Barbie, the Jewish doll (it's the "revealing clothes and shameful postures").
So she doesn't reveal a leg or an arm and she doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Allahu Akbar!
As a little girl I thought Barbie dolls were pathetic - the only good thing about them was that you could bend their legs the wrong way and pull their hair out. I wanted a train set like the boys.
Are these marketed in KSA? I, too, would have thought them to be haram. All we need to wait for now is the "martyr" doll.
I'm not generally in favour of the death penalty, but whoever came up with the name Toys 'R' Us - the 'R' is the wrong way round and looks like a Russian letter - should be stoned to death with stones that are neither too big nor too small.
Since it is so important in Allah's world for women to be covered up at all times, how do these Muslims who commit so many rapes, manage to accomplish this without their victims' "sinful" flesh being exposed?
The stupidity of Islam is beyond me.
Islam is the curse of the 21st century
I have posted this story before. That I saw two little Muslim girls, one about 9 in long black coat and hijab, the other about 7 in a long drab coat, supervised by a fearsome looking harridan in heavy duty hijab in a local shopping centre. They had slipped away from the harridan and were in Claires Accessories (an English chain for girls and young women) fingering something pink and fluffy with a look of naked longing. The harridan barked and they fled the shop looking back sorrowfully.
There is fun to be had with Barbies. I know one girl who put her favourite in a shoe box, with the Prince Kens at its corners and arranged the others in a reconstruction of the Queen Mother's funeral.
She was aged 9 and dressed in a long coat. She was not 9 inches tall.
That was the Barbie.
I'd ask if Fulla came with bruise decals, but I guess being a Stepford Muslimah, she wouldn't be a candidate for a Koran-sanctioned beating.
And since, according to Middle-East Info, 97% of Egyptian women have undergone mutilation, Fulla is also quite anatomically correct.
I wonder what other action figures are popular in the Muslim world. Surely Mullah-Man and "Boy"-Friend can't be far behind:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Gallery/16.htm
(Don't worry-- not explicit, just creepy.)
My apologies if this post is a little dark-- put in a late night surfing MEI and FaithFreedom, and, well, damn.
I'm not generally in favour of the death penalty, but whoever came up with the name Toys 'R' Us - the 'R' is the wrong way round and looks like a Russian letter - should be stoned to death with stones that are neither too big nor too small.
Transliterated, that's "Toys-Ya-Us." Must cause a moment of confusion overseas, the backward R being Russian for "I."
Whoever designed the stores does want shooting indeed. How any toyshop can be dull I don't know. But they are. And I have never succeeded in buying what I am after so I don't bother now.
Now Hamleys.....too good for kids!
"But she is still single as no plans appear to be afoot for marketing an Islamic equivalent of Ken, as giving her a boyfriend would be seen inappropriate in conservative Muslim cultures."
This gives me an idea. Why not create a series of Barbie dolls? First would be a six-year-old Barbie who could be bartered by her family into an arranged, loveless marriage with a middle-aged Ken. Next would be 12-year-old Barbie who would be raped by 60-year-old Ken, whom she has never met. Next would be an 18-year-old Barbie who wears a full burqa to cover up all the bruises from the regular beatings she suffers at the hands of Ken. Next would be a 30-year-old Barbie, who is forced to live on the streets in poverty because Ken got tired of her and divorced her without her knowledge. Finally, there would be "cadaver" Barbie, the victim of a family honor killing. I tell you, we could make a fortune on this, and I promise to donate 10% of my earnings to JW/DW.
And why the quotation marks round the 'R'=ya? What feckwit thought that one up?
From 'Ask the imam'
1. Generally toys that do not have any animate pictures or are not shaped in
an animate form (like dolls) may be given to children. Dolls may be given if
the head is removed.
http://islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=5357
Dolls may be given if the head is removed.
Pour encourager les autres.
Interested - LOL
... whoever came up with the name Toys 'R' Us - the 'R' is the wrong way round and looks like a Russian letter - should be stoned to death.
--- posted by interested
I've had the pleasure to briefly meet founder Charles Lazarus. He's a great guy. One of those execs where the B.S. gets checked at the door. He also has been very active in philantrophy over the years since he made his fortune.
Interested, with your call for a public death-stoning it has become apparent that you've been reading Islamic scripture way too much.
Please don't kill him.
Don't be alarmed, pig farmer. Or perhaps you are a farmer of alarmed pigs. I was only joking.
This is why modern feminists don't care about stonings, acid facials, or the complete lack of freedom for women in Islam, they agree with the ummah on superficial points like Barbie.
Dolls may be given if the head is removed.
The Amish also have something about faces so dolls faces are blank or side view/blank.
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Most Barbie dolls end up undressed permanently anyway. Only collectors seem to keep them dressed and on stands. That and kids that have stopped playing with them. Is there a fatwa for these dolls keeping dressed yet?
Dolls may be given if the head is removed.
So "doll face" would not be a compliment in Shariah-compliant areas...
And why the quotation marks round the 'R'
I think it's to show the missing letters, A and E - are. Keith Waterhouse did a whole article on things like tuna'n'sweetcorn. Not to mention R'n'B.
"He also has been very active in philantrophy over the years since he made his fortune."
-- from a posting above
Good. Tell him to send Jihad Watch some money. Tell everyone who has cash to spare. We need it, and we deserve it. Far more than all kinds of phony operations and think-tanks and self-promoters all climbing Mt. Mountebank, ready to flog their wares onc ethey reach its summit.
Don't be alarmed, pig farmer. Or perhaps you are a farmer of alarmed pigs.
I've been careful to see to it that my hogs are totally unaware of the unhappy fact that Moslems exist. If they did, I'd be ruined with my porkers laying around worrying their asses off about what the Sharia really means and losing weight.
This doll was praised before with a huge black cover, guess it wasn't as popular as they thought, huh?
Granny W, I agree with you, pink and fluffy at Claires would win over black heavy shroud any day. Course those little girls will never get a chance to chose. It goes against the natural grain. It's like trying to put little boys in pink- most would revolt. I wonder if the wedding dress look of the scarf has anything to do with it being popular.
I hope they come with Islamic verses painted on their little bodies like the ladies in (Islamic terrorist-murdered) Theo Van Gogh's (and living unser death-fatwa Hirsi Ali's) film "SUBMISSION".
Especially the Suras and Hadithic sayings about the inferiority and worthlessness of women in Islam.
But, if the dolls' clothes are removable, and not glued on permanently, how can the promoters claim that they are any more "modest" than trashy old infidel 'roundheels' Barbie?
And do the Moslem babe dolls' accessories include little pink suicide vests?
In keeping with the faith's most deviously ingenious invention (possibly the only Islamic invention since 1100 A.D.)- the bomb belt.
But, in order to help destroy the economy of these enablers of the pedophile, let's just start the rumor that these Muslo-dolls' bodies are produced from a plastic & gelatin concoction derived from boiled pig cartilage, thus they are absolutley haram. And must be forbidden.
We can't let them steal Western ideas like Barbie and make a terror-supporting fortune with this kiddie-abusing crap.
Interested:
Dolls may be given if the head is removed.
"Pour encourager les autres."
That's good - my laugh of the day.
Tell him to send Jihad Watch some money.
You know billionaire philantrophists can't contribute to JihadWatch or make any other expression of anti-Dhimmitude.
ALWAYS AGGREIEVED ALWAYS ANGRY ALWAYS BITTER ALWAYS MOSLEM ALWAYS
Until the extremely damaging and historically debilitating Twin Cower myths that...
1) Islam is a reasonable religion, and
2) Moderate Moslems exist (unicorn)
... are debunked, then public philantrophy towards the cause of saving freedom from Sharia is strictly verboten.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/12/19/barbie-study-051219.html
CBC News: Girls often 'torture' Barbies, researchers say
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1939678,00.html
Barbarism begins with Barbie, the doll children love to hate
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/19/D8EJGO4G3.html
Researchers Find Barbie Is Often Mutilated
I tell you, we could make a fortune on this, and I promise to donate 10% of my earnings to JW/DW.
--- posted by Howard, Fine & Howard
HFH, I'd like for you to insert a couple of edits into your exciting script.
First, you absolutely must work in a clitorodectomy step into the course of Moslem Barbie's life. Little Moslem girls could ritualistically clip the thing off as an important symbolic step in the life of a young Moslem woman. This would be a real selling feature to Moslem dads, and enhance our personal income revenue from this deal.
Second, when she gets dumped onto the street, I'd like a scene where she treks into Dar al Harb and is given work by a kind-hearted pig farmer, free room and board included. The little Moslem girls could feed Moslem Barbie toy plastic pork chops while she's living at the farm.
That'd be great.
Talk about a thread topic just begging to be ridiculed.
I read that in Iran, the hottest new accessory is a gallows. Perfect for punishing Fulla after she gets gang-raped...its her fault for not resisting with the proper islamic zeal, dont ya know.
Here's an example of the vitally important work being done by one of those "self-promoters" supposedly climbing to "Mt. Mountebank"
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20855
Poster above -- No need to take offense, because that particular name was not even a blip on the screen of my radar when I made that comment. And what you posted to is something I applaud. Please -- try to thwart me, get mad at me, show me up, but only when we disagree, and not when we are in complte agreement. It makes no sense. Besides, it is not the stands a certain DH takes that get my goat; it is the industrial-strength quality of it all. I like hopelessly lone wolves. Don't you?
Re: "Fulla sells better because it is closer to our Arab values: she never reveals a leg or an arm," says Tarek Mohammed, chief salesman at a Toys'R'Us branch in Mohandessin, one of Cairo's more upmarket neighbourhoods.
Oh yes, I can perfectly comprhend the muslim logic here!
A barbie leg and arm will lead a young moslem girl into grave sin.
It is better to impart in children the serious danger of arms and legs before they are controlled by the devil.
I do fantasize about winning big in lottery and giving sizable donations to Jihadwatch. Lots and lots of billboards and other advertising. You never know.
Barbie has pretty much been flogged on this thread...
OT
by Mark Steyn
"Thus, every December 6, our own unmanned Dominion lowers its flags to half-mast and tries to saddle Canadian manhood in general with the blame for the Montreal massacre -- the 14 women murdered by Marc Lepine, born Gamil Gharbi, the son of an Algerian Muslim wife-beater, though you wouldn't know that from the press coverage. Yet the defining image of contemporary Canadian maleness is not M Lepine/Gharbi but the professors and the men in that classroom, who, ordered to leave by the lone gunman, meekly did so, and abandoned their female classmates to their fate -- an act of abdication that would have been unthinkable in almost any other culture throughout human history. The "men" stood outside in the corridor and, even as they heard the first shots, they did nothing. And, when it was over and Gharbi walked out of the room and past them, they still did nothing. Whatever its other defects, Canadian manhood does not suffer from an excess of testosterone."
http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/article.jsp?content=20060109_118922_118922
"Most Barbie dolls end up undressed permanently anyway. Only collectors seem to keep them dressed and on stands. That and kids that have stopped playing with them. Is there a fatwa for these dolls keeping dressed yet?"
Borg, you can't undress them, but you can hack into them! This is haram.
Keith Waterhouse did a whole article on things like tuna'n'sweetcorn. Not to mention R'n'B
Yes, but Toys "R" Us has double inverted commas, so it is meant to be in quotation marks. (We have to use single quotation marks at work, so out of habit I spelt it that way.) It's like saying Fish "N" Chips but with the N backwards, which I think is also a Russian letter. Cod Russian.
And it's an annoying shop.
An annoying shop indeed.
Computer says no! (seriously)
Barbie is Jewish?????????
But Ken's Protestant!!!!!!!!
Another lost JAP! :(
"Self-promoter" lies within the same vein as "Empire builder"...hence, the correlation. But I'm all too willing to retract and very pleased to finally read an acknowledged appreciation of David on your part.
I suppose I do have a certain affinity for the lone wolf (or coyote as the case may be). But in the end, my admiration is results-based. He IS moving the world, albeit incrementally...much like Robert and yourself, except in David's case, the progress is not confined to psychological preparation...but rather can be seen tangibly, through actual institutional changes and reforms being implemented (Ohio, Colorado, Tennessee and now hopefully Penn).
I saw him plug 'The End of Time' on C-span with an extended lecture. The man comes off as brilliant, passionate and sensitive. As a writer, he may not be the picture of fluidity and stylistic grace, but he has certainly found his voice...and besides, I'll take content over form any day of the week.
I have the yellow Telly Tubby, which I believe is the female equivalent.Couldn't resist it.Bought it in Tabuk in Saudi and it has a veil.
They really are very sick puppies.
...you can have your Barbie in fashionable islamic green or black, complete with hijab, bilbab or jilbab, and underneath she wears an explosive belt, and when you pull that string...
Personally I think a lot of our civilizational decline can be directly attributed to the pernicious effects of Barbie. Little girls used to "play" Barbie now they want to be Barbie.
The Barbie ideal is plastic, insensitive and unfeminine. Barbie is shaped like a boy with breasts. This has since become the modern ideal of womanhood and has led directly to the run on silicone.
Barbie be damned.
A little late, but here's some little pictures of the little madam.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4605334.stm
Yeah, right. She's a doll, you muppet.
"She's honest, loving and caring, and she respects her father and mother"
Thank heavens for Bratz.
l think the Barbie dolls are more for muslim men, the poor ones who cannot afford a wife,, and get it on with good ol barbie! thats why arabic barbie has two friends..with lighter hair,, for the muslim who cant have it all in real life!
Fulla is less expensive than Barbie in the long run too. She has less accessories
For one thing there won't be the Fulla Corvette, SUV, mini-van, or assorted horses.
Her "career" options are also very limited. You won’t be seeing President Fulla, Astronaut Fulla, Rock-star Fulla, Malibu Beach Fulla, etc... Basically, all she can have is one outfit and one career as some guy’s servant
I have heard that NewBoy Design Studio is considering coming out with a Sharia Kit to go with the "Fulla" doll series ... It includes a turbaned "Karim" doll in flowing black robes complete with cudgel, flail, and a cute little block of wood and axe for chopping... Other accessories under consideration include a bag of miniature pebbles for stoning pillars at Mekkah, (also could be used if "Fulla" transgresses Islam's laws...), a miniature broken coke bottle (for nighttime clitorectomies), and a cute little noose-cum-crane number (by Tonka?) for impromptu public hangings...
Tiny plastic kalishnikov rifles and bomb vests are also said to be under consideration, but many executives believe these might send out the wrong message at this time about Islam (not having anything to do with violence and all...)
I have heard that NewBoy Design Studio is considering coming out with a Sharia Kit to go with the "Fulla" doll series ... It includes a turbaned "Karim" doll in flowing black robes complete with cudgel, flail, and a cute little block of wood and axe for chopping... Other accessories under consideration include a bag of miniature pebbles for stoning pillars at Mekkah...
Posted by: jsla
Looks like I was wrong about accessories. That's how they get ya, even in muslim countries.
Barbie is Jewish?????????
-Shy Guy
Of course she is. Because anything so decadent and Western HAS to be Jewish. If Fulla bumps into Jewish Barbie she explodes.
Fulla doesn't have any bumps -- she's a pious Muslim...
This just in...
NewBoy Design Studio has just revealed that there will also be a new toy line of Mighty Potent Mullah Managers, similar to the famous Mighty Mutant Power Rangers... They can transform from mystical clerics into military generals, oil conglomerate execs, supreme court judges, and billionaire oligarchs --they are accountable only to a supreme leader. This doll is rumored to strikingly resemble the father of the Iranian Islamic Republic, Ayatolly Khomeini, whose head is fashioned after the abdomen of a bulbous spider with furrows and a beard...
Each mullah doll will feature a special secret power, based mainly on a form of mystical nuclear energy, the purpose of which is shrouded in mystery but guaranteed to be for "peaceful purposes"... Plans are in the works so that whenever these special secret powers are mentioned, the dolls will wink at and exchange meaningful nods, or arching of eyebrows... It was also revealed that some of the Mullahs will derive their powers from a tangled web of offshore corporations, and opaque transfers of wealth, and possibly even murky ties to terrorist organizations and cells in foreign lands... One plan also includes a Mullah who derives his special powers from young boys in madrassas, for which he has peculiar but pious Muslim predilection... But execs cautioned that this was only in the planning stages... Some thought the Islamic world might not be ready to admit such a thing as yet...
Release is planned for sometime in '06... Stay tuned for more updates...!
This whole thread has been a real laugh. When I was a small boy, GI Joe and Barbie were the same size. So I'd have my GI Joe kidnap my older sister's barbies and not release them until my sister paid me a ransom (usually enough for a popcicle).
Of course, GI Joe never raped Barbie and didn't behead Ken. For that they would have had to make a "GI Moe".
If someone buys a Fulla doll and her two friends, Yasmine and Nada, strips them naked and puts the pictures of their little nude plastic bodies on the web... Will all these dolls in Arabia be rounded up and executed for indecency?
Or maybe the Prophet Muhammed (Lice Be Upon Him) would just want to marry them all.
Better yet, get a "Muhammad" doll, (must have cancerous mole on back, smell bad and look dirty) An Islamic Ken (Achmed) doll, with head chopped off laying on ground, near a trench in the sandbox, and the Muhammad doll having sex with the stripped down Barbie dolls nearby.
Take a pic of that "Naitivity" scene.
Include the Koranic verse of course. Post them on Ebay as Islamic IEDE cards.
I only hope that the Islamic barbie doll is aged 9.
I guess Fulla does not have a (pink?) convertible either, since she won't be able to drive alone or be unaccompanied by a man.