It isn’t an “ultra-radical version of Islam, which forbids the depiction of human beings”; it’s at this point standard, mainstream Islam, to avoid the temptation to idolatry. In any case, this is one small indication of how Islamic mores are becoming commonplace in some areas of France.
À Roubaix, certains magasins de jouets vendent des poupées sans visage afin de respecter une version ultra-radicale de l’Islam qui interdit la représentation des êtres humains.
📺 #ZoneInterdite, « Face au danger de l’Islam radical, les réponses de l’État » dimanche à 21.10 pic.twitter.com/r0EtyqeYUA— M6 (@M6) January 21, 2022
“In France, some toy shops sell faceless dolls in order to follow an ultra-radical version of Islam, which forbids the depiction of human beings,” Medforth, January 18, 2022:
Translation: In Roubaix, some toy shops sell faceless dolls to comply with an ultra-radical version of Islam that forbids the depiction of humans.
? #ZoneInterdite, “Facing the danger of radical Islam, the state’s responses” on Sunday at 9.10pm.
Michael Copeland says
Roubaix is where the mayor allocated funds to Islamic causes.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/01/france-awards-order-of-merit-to-mayor-accused-of-using-taxpayer-money-to-fund-jihad-propaganda-in-schools
mortimer says
Roubaix has a SHARIA-ENFORCEMENT NO-GO ZONE … the jihadists are building a BASE OF OPERATIONS for JIHAD in Roubaix.
Don’t the French see what is going on under their noses?
C’mon France, wake up and smell the rich aroma of hot, steaming, farm-fresh TAQIYYA !
Westman says
The faceless dolls seem to be a good representation of Islam – no human organization head. How about just printing an image of a Quran cover on the face of each doll since it is the real earthly “head” of Islam? Oh, wait!, would that be a Sunni cover, a Shi’a cover, a Baha’i cover? Forget it. It would likely lead to Doll Wars….
Infidel says
Why not just sell ‘dolls w/ hijabs’, but under the hijabs, instead of a statue of a girl, have a model of a grenade? If the customer is muslim, they’ll be thrilled, and if non-muslim, they’d have learned something ?
mortimer says
The dolls are actually ‘underage bride’ dolls. They come with a matching male doll (representing a 54-year-old man) as the bribe’s old ‘husband’. These Islamist dolls have the added purpose of teaching little girls about Allah’s ‘blessing’ of forced child marriages. (sarc/off)
tim gallagher says
In so many ways, I believe Islam is insane. Oh, the horror of reproducing the human form. So, if islam had its way, just as one example, there would be no paintings such as the Mona Lisa or other such portraits. Another example is Islam’s truly bizarre hatred for dogs, considered man’s best friend, by so many people for their loyalty and unconditional love. I don’t know how people can belong to Islam and go along with such utter bullshit. islam is simply insane and extremely sick. Then, there’s its child brides, and on and on the list of insane rubbish goes. islam was devised by a bunch of sickos and is full of insane, senseless garbage.
PRCS says
It wasn’t insane per the norms of 7th-century Arabia.
That it continues in the modern world is the problem.
To those who say Islam has not undergone a reformation, it has: Salafism/Wahabism–elimination of less stringent practices which had crept in over the centuries with a return to Islam’s barbaric beginnings.
tim gallagher says
That’s true, PRCS. The problem is definitely that, in our modern world, islam’s primitive nonsense still is hanging around, polluting humanity. I have heard about the harsher attitudes of Salafism/Wahabism dragging islam back to its harsher forms. In our modern world, to actually be a human being who thinks that any representation of the human form is prohibited, or that dogs are terrible animals, or young girls should be married off is embarrassing. It is such a weird, primitive mentality, in so many areas, that Muslims have. They should be ashamed to believe such crap because it is so ridiculous in modern times.
PRCS says
The educated ones SHOULD be ashamed. But–they’re not.
Here’s an infamous case of a Saudi Muslim couple who were keeping an Indonesian woman in sexual slavery: In Aurora Colorado.
https://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/676
Note the “Cultural Bias Argument” in this Wikipedia article.
How many Afghan refugees in your country and mine brought that thinking–normal, 7th-century thinking–with them is not known because so few are challenged about that.
PRCS says
Ooops:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homaidan_Al-Turki
gravenimage says
Agreed, Tim. Islam is not just irrational, but irrational in such ugly ways.
And PRCS, you are right–even by the low standards of dark ages tribal Arabia, Islam was appalling. Even more so now, in the modern, civilized West.
tim gallagher says
Yes, just primitive garbage, gravenimage. i wonder if some Muslims do leave islam because so much of it is bizarre and irrational, such as this prohibition on representing the human form or claiming that dogs are terrible animals or it’s OK to marry off very young girls.. If I were a member of such an ideology I’d find a way to walk out on such primitive crap. It is too stupid for words.
PRCS says
Not much we can do about it–over there.
But, we’ve got to get the truth about that totalitarian theocracy to more of our kuffar friends and neighbors; with little help from politicians and news outlets.
gravenimage says
Agreed, PRCS.
Fred Alan Medforth says
France: Guillaume Delbar, mayor of Roubaix, paid 80,000 euros in 2020 to an Islamist association…
https://medforth.biz/france-guillaume-delbar-mayor-of-roubaix-paid-80000-euros-in-2020-to-an-islamist-association/
gravenimage says
Guillaume Delbar is another useful idiot. It seems never to have occurred to him that Muslims might use Infidel tax money to fund violent Da’wa.
gravenimage says
France: Some toy stores sell faceless dolls to avoid offending Muslims
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*Ewww*. Of course, having dolls at all violates the Islamic diktat against any depictions of living creatures. Some Muslims consider this OK for prepubescent children; some make no exceptions.
And yes, this is the same town where school funs were used to teach Jihad.
Jim says
We need zero tolerance policies toward Islam. This is stealth jihad, and that is not good for our society. This may seem minor to us, but it is sort of like a minor incursion, as President Joe would say. There is no minor incursion, because it just encourages other monor incursions, and they all add up to a big defeat for Western society.
Prince Eugene says
“There is no radical Islam. There is Islam.” —Mordechai Kedar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Yh6YAjeYg
Kenneth J Johnson says
In France “Collaborfator ” is a difrty word. The mayor of Roubaix and the merchants who are selling disfigured dolls to appese Muslems. when they might not even buy. Collabortioiists?? KEN
gravenimage says
Most of those selling these dolls are Muslim.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the article, PRCS. What disgusting people. Islam is a complete disgrace in so many ways, which is why I said that Muslims, as you say at least the educated ones, should be ashamed to belong to an ideology that contains so much primitive garbage. As you mention, most Muslims aren’t ashamed of Islam’s barbaric crap at all. My only policy is to try to keep Muslims out of all non–Muslim countries because Islam is so incompatible with modern civilised life in endless different ways. It has been such a useless social experiment letting Muslims into our countries.