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Because that makes them not representations of the human form, which are forbidden in Islam. In the same spirit, Muslim conquerers scratched out the eyes of Christian icons in churches in Eastern Europe. Sharia Alert: "Sharjah shops told to 'behead' mannequins," by Mariam M. Al Serkal for Gulfnews (thanks to Mathew):
Sharjah: Mannequins in Sharjah shops should be headless and only model “decent” clothing, a Sharjah Municipality circular has stated.The municipality has urged shopkeepers to abide by a ban that prohibits the display of mannequins with facial features, said a senior Sharjah Municipality official.
“The only clothes on display now should be decent and the mannequins should be headless,” said Khalid Al Jaberi, head of market control at Sharjah Municipality.
A circular was recently sent to all shops stating the heads of mannequins be removed and that they are forbidden to wear underwear, to uphold the traditional and religious values of the emirate....
Posted by Robert at February 20, 2008 6:55 AM
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Perhaps they'd like to kidnap a few and videotape their beheadings.
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at February 20, 2008 7:09 AM
This is blatant anti-mannequin persecution! Wouldn't it be more realistic, not to mention much kinder to the mannequins, to just dress them in burquas?
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at February 20, 2008 7:41 AM
Practice makes perfect!
Posted by: Shy Guy at February 20, 2008 7:47 AM
Notice how none of the mannequins speak up and protest?
Dhummitude.
Posted by: Shy Guy at February 20, 2008 7:48 AM
I don't think "Shy Guy" merits his nom de post.
Posted by: Hugh at February 20, 2008 9:13 AM
Silence, infidoll!
Posted by: Shy Guy at February 20, 2008 9:23 AM
"...and that they are forbidden to wear underwear, to uphold the traditional and religious values of the emirate...."
I'm not even going to go there.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at February 20, 2008 9:33 AM
ImNoDhimmi,
I was going to say...How can they model burqas on headless dummies?
Interesting religion. Dummies and women should have no faces.
Posted by: Abscedere at February 20, 2008 10:13 AM
Does this mean that underware is not worn over there...by anyone? And they have the nerve to call us dirty? Eww, eww, eww!
Posted by: never_submit at February 20, 2008 10:19 AM
"Headless in the UAE!"
I suppose it doesn't have the same ring as "Anarchy in the UK", but I think Johnny Rotten could still do it justice.
Posted by: tanstaafl at February 20, 2008 11:03 AM
"Headless in the UAE!"
I suppose it doesn't have the same ring as "Anarchy in the UK", but I think Johnny Rotten could still do it justice.
Posted by: tanstaafl at February 20, 2008 11:03 AM
Kind of sounds like "Back in the USSR". And if you think about it, it is like being in the USSR.
Posted by: PersonOfTheBook at February 20, 2008 11:56 AM
this is bloody redickulas
Posted by: doglover at February 20, 2008 12:14 PM
Shouldn't all the mannequins all be circumcised?
Posted by: tanstaafl at February 20, 2008 12:14 PM
"Shouldn't all the mannequins all be circumcised?"
Well, maybe just the male ones. (They have something else in mind for the female ones)
It just occurred to me, who chaperone's the female mannequins after dark?
I'll refrain from commenting on the rich source of puns involving 'head'.
at February 20, 2008 12:29 PM
Well, they were cutting the breasts off of female mannequins a while back and duck taping the holes.
Posted by: Borg at February 20, 2008 12:42 PM
As Achmed the Dead Terrorist would say, "Silence!! I Keeeel you!!"
Then again, this new UAE law might require his beheading, too, since I'm sure ventriloquist's dummies are covered....
Posted by: Anthony (Los Angeles) at February 20, 2008 1:57 PM
Ahem, I, uh, hate to offend everyone's delicate sensibility, but this is just too cheap a shot to resist (LOL):
Is this order to "behead" mannequins a tacit admission that the ULTRA-VIOLENT MAHOMETAN THUG CULTISTS actually "GET OFF" on Mannequins!??
I guess there aren't enough goats and sheep to go around in the UAE! Not to mention 9 year old girls!!
"ROP" appears to stand for "Religion of perverts."
at February 20, 2008 2:35 PM
What isn't funny is that these thought police actually get away with making up stupid stuff like this and disobedience is liable to get somebody killed. See rules for Sharia from Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/islam-stonings.html
Be especially careful, all you girls out there, not to ride on a bike between two men.
Maybe this guy needs a hobby. Or a job.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at February 20, 2008 2:46 PM
Ok, here's my plan; Radio Free Europe redirects its broadcasts, to the ME http://www.rferl.org/
'Victoria's Secrets' and 'La Vie En Rose' run TV commercials 24/7! The jihadists will die from exhaustion.
at February 20, 2008 4:41 PM
Headless, and without underwear . . . As funny as it is (and it is), the old Women's Studies training just leaps up and remarks, "Faceless. Mindless. And always sexually available," before it slinks off back into the basement where I keep it.
Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter at February 20, 2008 4:56 PM
According to Ask the Imam, dolls heads should also be removed.
http://islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=5357
(If I remember rightly this came up before at DW.)
Posted by: Silvester at February 20, 2008 7:35 PM
"According to Ask the Imam, dolls heads should also be removed."
Hmmm, if I remember correctly, the reverse was true in the second installment of Aliens.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at February 20, 2008 10:40 PM
These Muslims need their heads seeing too
Posted by: ericthekuffar at February 21, 2008 8:05 AM
Cultural desertification.
Posted by: joeblough at February 21, 2008 2:44 PM
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