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1. Susan Katz Keating:

Please tell me this is a joke…

Oct 9, 2008 - 10:05 am 2. SAF:

Yes and Obama will sit down and have a reasonable peace conference with them.

I have always imagined there is a planet called “Zon” which isn’t too far away and they have a super worm hole telescope which allow them to watch the earth closely. Of course they don’t call us the earth they call us “luf Kookinmatter” which loosely translates to the planet of crazy people. Another loose translation is the comedy channel.

I am sure they find the barbie episode amusing.

Oct 9, 2008 - 10:18 am 3. seketabi:

No, it’s not a joke. This is not surprising, but in Iran, at least, the similar dolls in proper hijab don’t sell very well, either. See http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0915/p04s01-wome.html

Only one qualm about this article – Ms Jacobsen, the vast majority of Iranians are not Arabs. They’re usually a bit touchy about it, too.

Oct 9, 2008 - 10:34 am 4. J.J. Sefton:

Susan Katz:

This is NOT a joke. It is deadly serious. And don’t forget, this is not some kook fringe group protesting this. It is officially sanctioned government bans.

This is the face of Islamo-fascism. Not the kamikazes that flew planes into the World Trade Center. Rather, so called Muslim moderates. This is a religion with 1 Billion adherents. The 9/11 jihadis are only a tenth of one per cent. The rest just hate us and want to subjugate us.

Do the math.

Oct 9, 2008 - 10:50 am 5. J.J. Sefton:

Sorry for abbreviating your name, Ms Katz-Keating!

You might want to check out the Middle East Media Research Institue website. MEMRI. You would faint if you saw what Palestinian children are watching on thier TV’s every day.

Oct 9, 2008 - 10:52 am 6. susan:

seketabi, the fact that they are not arabs is a nuance. This is the same pattern you see in every society dominated by islam. If they are asians, persians, turks or africans makes no difference.

Oct 9, 2008 - 11:03 am 7. Bob Halpern:

Lifetime liberals take note. unfortunately it’s not a joke. but the joke will end up being on us and our civiliztion if we don’t take heed. that’s why it’s so critical to connect the Islamic dots in this ever more threatening scenario and vote Republican in November. it doesn’t take a genius to figure it out. it’s 1938 in Germany once again.

Oct 9, 2008 - 11:12 am 8. westToast:

Quick–someone tell them that jewish scientists invented the A-bombs!

Oct 9, 2008 - 11:17 am 9. Marc Malone:

A-bombs? No problem. They will make their Bombs properly Islamic. What’s the term: Halal?

Oct 9, 2008 - 11:54 am 10. Marc Malone:

Actually, I kinda get it. I don’t allow my girls to have Bratz dolls, as they simply oversexualize girls. Maybe, I’m nuts, too. Of course, I AM the parent, not the government.

Oct 9, 2008 - 11:57 am 11. DoktorNo:

It’s like screaming “Jews, Jews everywhere!” all the time.

Talk about obsession….

Oct 9, 2008 - 12:01 pm 12. J.J. Sefton:

westToast:

Awesome! How do you say “eew! My nukes have Joo-cooties. Take them away” in Arabic and Farsi?

Oct 9, 2008 - 12:02 pm 13. Dawn:

These are very sick people. So tell me again why we let any of them into our country?

Oct 9, 2008 - 12:02 pm 14. Marc Malone:

We let them in, because we hope to infect them with our open-mindedness and tolerance. :p

Oct 9, 2008 - 12:19 pm 15. Fred:

The particular Barbie Doll pictured does seem to be underdressed. It is possible that it is a fraudulent knock-off or that it is a special run for some country that likes their kids in micro-skirts.

The actual dolls are no doubt made in one of the Asian Tigers or China. So are they Confucian or Communist?

Israel has had it’s own Barbie problems:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3144988,00.html

Oct 9, 2008 - 1:22 pm 16. Fat Tone:

I’m betting bomber vest Barbie would sell like crazy !

Oct 9, 2008 - 1:46 pm 17. kevin c:

annie-check this out-APPARENTLY FISHER PRICE HAS SOME BARBIE LIKE DOLL OUT QUOTING SOME FAVORABLE REFERENCES TO ISLAM. I WONDER WHERE THE COMMIE MEDIA WOULD BE OR THE ISLAMIC BOMB SQUAD WOULD BE IF THE DOLL SAID “ISLAM HATES”

Oct 9, 2008 - 2:06 pm 18. Marc Malone:

I wonder who slipped those into the products? You know the Barbie makers didn’t do it. Someone was making a point. A good one. Did one have a speech ballon screaming Allah-hu Akhbar? Hilarious!

Oct 9, 2008 - 2:28 pm 19. ST333:

Yet another reason we need alternate energy and fuels. Energy independence will get us far far away from the savages that are launching a campaign against a doll. Saudi Arabia is a backwards place that we only tolerate for their black gold. Seriously, why do we need to lower ourselves and deal with morons? http://push.pickensplan.com/

Oct 9, 2008 - 2:40 pm 20. susan:

DoktorNo

no, it’s not like being paranoid of the jews, no jew ever crushed himself into a building killing 3000 ppl

Oct 9, 2008 - 3:59 pm 21. Valerie:

You are worried about dolls, when they carve up little girls?

Oct 9, 2008 - 5:17 pm 22. Wow! , An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings:

[...] I had NO idea…… Barbie is Jewish? [...]

Oct 9, 2008 - 7:37 pm 23. Marc Malone:

Valerie – Yes, I am. The lack of freedom is what allows them to “castrate” young girls. The women even participate, even though it was done to them, and they remember how horrific it was. No one stops them, or even tells them it’s wrong. They can’t.

That’s now coming to a home near you, if you vote Obama.

Yes, TeamPlayer, I mean that sincerely. I am not name-calling. I know my history. I see the signs.

Oct 9, 2008 - 8:43 pm 24. Joe Kaffir:

Nothing helps spotlight the insanity of iranian leadership like their own insanity.

One can only imagine the next generation X of moslem dolls, a large plastic egg with two dots for eyes and completely covered in the full black shishkebab with a glamourous eye slit.
Maybe a Ken doll that literally blows up(in the face of the infidels, of course!)

Oh how one’s imagination could run wild !

Oct 9, 2008 - 9:53 pm 25. Rachel Cohen:

Barbie is not Jewish. Look at that hair! How sad is this culture, how devoid of purpose when they start to worry about toys and dolls. Evidently, peaking in the 14th century wasn’t so great.

Oct 9, 2008 - 10:33 pm 26. Vlad Tepesblog:

I was planning to make a bacon Cheese Burka. You know for display at the National Gallery. Yes the same National Gallery that had the piss Christ and the virgin Mary covered in fecal matter. But I’m pretty sure the open minded tolerant appraisers for the gallery would see no artistic merit in a bacon cheese burka even though it was to protest grotesque abuses of human and especially women’s rights in Islamic nations. The irrational left seem ready to howl abuse of rights at anyone except those that actually abuse them and scream intolerance at everyone except the intolerant.

Oct 9, 2008 - 10:59 pm 27. kate b:

How can moderate Muslims not be outraged by this stupidity? And Barbie looks more Scandinavian to me. I know a Muslim Barbie was brought out, but now it will have to go be recalled as she is showing both eyes instead of the now obligatory one, as showing two eyes invites rape, apparently.

Oct 10, 2008 - 1:32 am 28. RiP:

I believe the name of this funny and wonderful Teheran´s newspaper is KAYHAN, not KAHYAN.

Oct 10, 2008 - 5:01 am 29. Sheila:

Do they behead the Barbies?

Oct 10, 2008 - 5:16 am 30. Spindok:

And verily do I say to the engineers of Teheran and Busheahr. Abandon the corrupt teachings of the Jews; Oppenheimer, Einstein, Bohr and Teller, for they are only decievers. Build your reactor on Islamic principles only; following the principles of true Islamic science such as Jabir ibn Hayyan (7th century Islams greatest scientist and most recent alchemist of note) of blessed memory.

And to the princes and sheiks of Saudi Arabia. Do not deign to enter Mecca while beating within your chest lies a Jewish pacemaker (Paul Zoll 1952). This is only a device used by the Jews to corrupt the hearts of the faithful. Remove their evil defibrillators from your houses of healing and replace them with faith in the merciful one.

Ins’allah

Oct 10, 2008 - 6:15 am 31. David H:

Sheila, course they don’t, they stone them…

Oct 10, 2008 - 7:10 am 32. Sheila:

Doh! My bad, David

Oct 10, 2008 - 7:28 am 33. Ursa Major:

No, Shelia, they stone them to death.

Oct 10, 2008 - 7:33 am 34. BMoon:

Are they putting all the Barbies and Kens into little concentration camps all over Iran?

Oct 10, 2008 - 11:21 am 35. Steynian 267 « Free Mark Steyn!:

[...] HOT ON THE TRAIL! Muslim World’s Vice Squads Hunt ‘Jewish’ Barbie Dolls, by Annie Jacobsen …. [...]

Oct 10, 2008 - 1:58 pm 36. Marc Malone:

Bmoon – HA! “Let my Barbies and Kens go free!” “Silence, Infidel!”

Oct 10, 2008 - 2:59 pm 37. Roger Godby:

The joke is that Obamatrons, progressives of every stripe, Code Pink, and other dimwits will see this as justified, for America is the source of the world’s ills. Yet those same people often hold positions of power and responsibility, which makes it all much less funny.

Oct 10, 2008 - 5:52 pm 38. DoktorNo:

Great piece by Daniel Pipes about ongoing islamic cultural isolation:

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3386

Oct 11, 2008 - 2:24 am 39. Cicero:

“I think every Barbie doll is more harmful than an American missile,” Ms. Rahmi told the BBC back in 2002.

That depends on where the American missile is aimed, Ms. Rahmi.

Oct 11, 2008 - 4:25 pm 40. SP:

WHAT ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT?!?!?!?!??!
MUSLIMS ARE VERY NICE PEOPLE THER ARE ONLY A FEW BAD ONES! NOT ALL OF THEM HATE US! LOOK AT THE WORK GREG MOTENSEN DID IN PAKISTAN!

Oct 11, 2008 - 6:36 pm 41. Marc Malone:

SP – What are you talking about, Muslims being nice people? Good Lord, look at what their Holy Book propounds: Heathens are to be eliminated, as are apostates. Christians and Jews can live, as long as they acknowledge the supremacy of Islam. If not, they, too, die. Women are specifically inferior to men. Having sex with an unmarried woman is considered unclean… as in fecal-matter unclean. Homosexuality in devout Muslim countries is, resultantly, about 25%. I could go on, but you get the picture.

Oct 11, 2008 - 11:54 pm 42. Sadly, No! » Shorter Annie Jacobsen:

[...] ABOVE: Annie Jacobsen (right) Muslim World’s Vice Squads Hunt ‘Jewish’ Barbie Dolls [...]

Oct 12, 2008 - 3:41 pm 43. Loneoak:

I can’t believe that anyone would get upset about a Barbie Doll!!! That is so … unAmerican. No Christian would ever get so outraged and try to ban a harmless doll. I’m totally with Dawn, we shouldn’t allow such doll-hating obsessive idiots into our country.

Oct 12, 2008 - 6:46 pm 44. Jon Parker:

I agree this is absolutely sick and repulsive. Definitely not what one would expect from a civilized nation.

Oct 12, 2008 - 6:49 pm 45. Gary Ruppert:

Those Lebanese men have something in their McDonald’s bags! They’re using the lavatory, one by one, after the seat-belt sign was turned off!! They’re looking around the plane!!1 Even out the windows!!1!

Just because I saw something that wasn’t there doesn’t mean I didn’t see something that was there.

Oct 13, 2008 - 2:41 am 46. CK:

I’m with Joe and Loneoak. It’s absolutely disgusting that anybody should inject religion and politics into the wonderful world of dollies:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/arab-worlds-vice-squads-hunt-jewish-barbie-dolls/

Oct 13, 2008 - 5:57 am 47. Paul:

kate b: What is this moderate muslim that you speak of?

Oct 13, 2008 - 11:24 am 48. Addie:

Mattel backs Islam promoting doll – will not recall

any relation to this “Islam is the Light” English-speaking doll?

Oct 13, 2008 - 11:26 am 49. Russian Bear:

The public here should be more sensitive to the religious and cultural traditions and customs of Islamic nations. Is anybody here outraged with Amish believes? Or that some Evangelical Christians have their dress code conservative, and do not approve sex before marriage?
Why Muslims then?
Well, people believe that a girl after 12 must be shy, must not expose the parts of her body that may provoke men’s sexual desire, must get married a virgin. For us it may look ridiculous but for them it is right and exactly what their religion is saying. Christians were the same just 100 y.a.

Oct 13, 2008 - 8:01 pm 50. Satanic and Islamic Doll Panic « Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion:

[...] and Islamic Doll Panic Posted on October 14, 2008 by Richard Bartholomew Annie Jacobsen mocks Muslim opposition to Barbie dolls: “Barbie is an emissary of nudity and promotes moral [...]

Oct 14, 2008 - 12:36 am 51. Shorter Annie Jacobsen | PoliticsMuch.com:

[...] ABOVE: Annie Jacobsen (right) Muslim World’s Vice Squads Hunt ‘Jewish’ Barbie Dolls [...]

Oct 14, 2008 - 11:07 am 52. deguello:

Muslims rightly recognize that post-modern crapitalism seeks to sexualize and exploit their children.They don’t want their daughters dressed like Brittany slut clones,or their sons dressed and acting like EMINEN ICET Ludacris,or other exemplars of “advanced,progresive Western culture”.If we in the West had shown similar resistance,back in the 70’s our culture would be saner,and the conflict with Islam would be far less severe than it is today.Barbie now, is not what she was in the 60’s.

Oct 14, 2008 - 11:53 am 53. Marc Malone:

Russian Bear – Why do we have a problem with it? Because if that 12-year-old DOES expose her body to the menfolks’ uncontrollable lust, it’s her fault, and they STONE HER TO DEATH! Same kind of thing if she “allows” herself to get gang-raped. Why was she out and about without a male family member to escort her? The better question is, “Why does she need an escort?” Because the Qu’ran teaches that women are inferior to men. They are chattel.

deguello – Are you insane? Do you hear what you’re saying? If we, too, had suppressed the evolution of Barbie, well, gosh, the Islamofascists would find us more tolerable?!? How would siccing the morality police on Barbie make our own society saner?

I know you spout a lot of leftist stuff on this site, but that has to be the most America-hating bilge I’ve ever seen pumped here: You’re saying we should be more like the Islamofascists; that we compare unfavorably with them; that we’re less moral. You have lost your mind!

Oct 14, 2008 - 4:45 pm 54. deguello:

So what you are saying is that exploiting women, turning them into sex objects, and making lots of money in the bargain is the American dream. By the, I’m Deguello’s wife and an MBA.`The Islomfascists hate us because we export a trash culture (did I also mention that I’m in “show business”?)whose only goal is to make money for those who sell it to the public. And it’s not only the Arabs who hate oure culture–talk to any Sarah Palin supporter or European. It’s tolerated because it’s a profit making commodity PS. Evolution of Barbie? How about the degeneration of barbie from a wholesome california girl girl into a slutty pole dancer.Morality police? the only morality in U$A is the morality of the market: impose and sell toxic garbage in the U$, and then do so in the rest of world. When they complain,bomb ‘em into submission, market it, then call it democracy.

Oct 14, 2008 - 5:57 pm 55. Marc Malone:

deguello – I agree that the culture has gone downhill. I just don’t buy some of the products, nor do I allow my girls to get certain ones. I don’t let them play with Bratz dolls, either. But that’s me as a parent, not the government.

I’m strongly against the government getting involved, as they can only make things far worse… like the Islamists do. That’s the difference. The thing to remember is that the Islamists are FAR RIGHT, not left. I don’t want our culture warriors emulating that behavior. Fascism is a very small shift to the right for them. Good belief systems become bad systems with just such a small shift.

Sorry I confused you with hubby.

Oct 14, 2008 - 8:19 pm 56. deguello:

I do not want the govt. to censor pr

Oct 15, 2008 - 5:12 am 57. deguello:

Mark Malone: by way of clarification. I do not want the govt. or a religion to censor speech or dress;however,we live under a largely secularized culture,they don’t,and until they become convinced of the merits of the western system,(are there any left?) they have every right to live under sharia law.Whenever I talk to muslims,their chief criticism of the US is not our (justified) resistance to Islamic terrorism,but rather,the attempt to market degeneracy. (Rush Limbaugh has made the same point).I try to point out that just as many Americans are offended,and that the US being largely, a plutocracy,defended by liberal relativists,it’s impossible to shame businesses into not promoting trash.The biggest recruiter for Islamic suicide bombers in the world isn’t Bush,it’s madonna.An “accidental” burning of a warehouse filled with madonna cds followed by a slap on the wrist conviction for the person responsible for the accident,repeated a hundredfold,would go a long way, toward reversing ouor socio-cultural decline.

Oct 15, 2008 - 12:07 pm 58. Russian Bear:

Marc Malone,
In terms of women’s rights, women generally had more legal rights under Islamic law than they did under Western legal systems until the 19th and 20th centuries. For example, “French married women, unlike their Muslim sisters, suffered from restrictions on their legal capacity which were removed only in 1965.
The Islamic law Sharia is not that simple like you are portraying it in the part of crimes and punishments. There are well defined conditions for both. I am not a supporter of capital punishment, but that were not Muslims who had come up with the idea of stoning for adultery and rape. That were Jews. Moses in particular. And, oh my God, once upon a time they stoned to death a man for picking up firewood on Saturday! Just read the Bible or Torah. It is there. In the judean-Christian tradition. Mohammad just borrowed the idea.
The problem with Sharia is that, being a religious law, it regulates the political system and the work of the government too, thus making “separation of religion from the state” an apostasy. That is why the mullahs and the Islamic rulers are involved and are concerned about Barbie. From their religious and moral views this doll is at least a case of “indecent exposure”, for you to understand. Indeed the doll is shaped like an adolescent woman, has breasts, wears lingerie, and everybody can take an up-skirt look at her.
Anothe bigger idea would be to make Ken with erected penis and Barbie with some kind of vagina and let the kids play.

Oct 15, 2008 - 11:18 pm 59. deguello:

Boris: Well stated,but please don’t give Mattel,and other manure mongering American enterprises, ideas,it may be just a matter of time before Ken @ Barbie are made anatomically correct,and sold to schools for elementary school level sex education,or a “Barbie Bordello” developed,complete with Barbie the Ho! and Ken as her pimp,to encourage young girls to become”sex workers”, (one of the few jobs available to women post financial meltdown”. There are enough corrupt “progressive parents out there to turn this into the next moneymaking cabbage patch craze. Oh no! I just gave the toymakers more ideas!

Oct 16, 2008 - 10:34 am 60. Howard:

Obama has been relentless in seducing America’s youth, and controlling the media. What’s next? … teaching our children to turn their parents in to the Gestapo? These tactics have been used before … and, they’re right out of the Nazi and Islamic/madrassa play books. Wake up America … the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Oct 20, 2008 - 12:41 pm 61. Khalid:

This is nonsense. There are jews living in Yemen, Iran, Bahrain, Morocco, Tunisia.. bla bla bla.. The problem between Israel and the Araba world is not religious. It’s a land grab and every decent human being is not going to just accept it! Please stop spreading b.s. and stop trying to gain more sympathizers to your selfish cause. It’s obvious that there are people in the U.S. who want to have the U.S. and the muslim world become enemies for the sake of the zionists.

Mar 31, 2009 - 12:56 pm

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