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Muslim World’s Vice Squads Hunt ‘Jewish’ Barbie Dolls
Pajamas Media ^
| October 9, 2008
| Annie Jacobsen
Posted on 10/09/2008 2:05:49 PM PDT by AJKauf
When Iranian toy seller Masoumeh Rahimi thinks of Barbie and Ken dolls, she thinks of heavy artillery — only worse. “I think every Barbie doll is more harmful than an American missile,” Ms. Rahmi told the BBC back in 2002. In April 2008, Iran’s top prosecutor and religious cleric, Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi, upped the anti-Barbie campaign by calling for a ban on the sale of all Barbie dolls from the country. “Barbie is an emissary of nudity and promotes moral corruption,” wrote the hardliner newspaper Kahyan....
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barbie; dolls; islam; mattel
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posted on
10/09/2008 2:05:50 PM PDT
by
AJKauf
To: AJKauf
Barbie is an emissary of nudity... Nudity has emissaries? What's next - the Ambassador from Toenail Fungus? ;)
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posted on
10/09/2008 2:08:37 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
To: AJKauf
I think he’s absolutely right. Did anyone else notice that the sixties, the decade of hedonism, came within a few years AFTER the first Barbie was introduced?
And Madeline Murray OHair, she won her court case destroying school prayer (and her children) right after.
It was BARBIE all along!
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posted on
10/09/2008 2:09:18 PM PDT
by
I still care
(A thousand screaming Germans, some fake columns and swooning girly-men does not a campaign make.)
To: AJKauf
Hmmm —— selling Barbie dolls vs. beheading baby infants live on TV - which is worse?
To: I still care
I thought it was Bushfault
To: AJKauf
The media had such a good time with Falwell & Tinkie-winkie they should have an absolute blast with this!
Can't wait for the jokes to start, Bill Mar.
6
posted on
10/09/2008 2:12:07 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: AJKauf
Burqa Barbie
7
posted on
10/09/2008 2:14:53 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life ;o)
To: AJKauf
The people who started Mattle Toys were Jewish, I believe not even devout you cant help how you were born.
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posted on
10/09/2008 2:15:45 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
(eyes open, mouth too - tough!)
To: AJKauf
Time to drop a bunch of Barbies on them. Nude Barbies with little parachutes. (Clothing at extra cost.)
9
posted on
10/09/2008 2:16:20 PM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(Blaming CO2 for global warming is like blaming your thermometer for your kid's fever.)
To: AJKauf
"When Iranian toy seller Masoumeh Rahimi thinks of Barbie and Ken dolls, she thinks of heavy artillery"
Me, too!
10
posted on
10/09/2008 2:16:20 PM PDT
by
Mr. Know It All
(Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem)
To: CPOSharky
I wuz thinking drop Barbies dipped in swines blood...that should get them all running for the hills.
11
posted on
10/09/2008 2:19:34 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
(eyes open, mouth too - tough!)
To: CPOSharky
I wuz thinking drop Barbies dipped in swines blood...that should get them all running for the hills.
12
posted on
10/09/2008 2:19:39 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
(eyes open, mouth too - tough!)
To: CPOSharky
I wuz thinking drop Barbies dipped in swines blood...that should get them all running for the hills.
13
posted on
10/09/2008 2:19:39 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
(eyes open, mouth too - tough!)
To: Gasshog
Whoops did I do that triple post??
14
posted on
10/09/2008 2:21:12 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
(eyes open, mouth too - tough!)
To: diotima
Jewish Barbie dolls, with their naked clothing, lewd positions, and different samples and accessories, are symbols of decadence of the perverted West. Let us recognize their danger and worry.Oh my.
(Hmmm... since this story is -- shockingly -- from Saudi Arabia, maybe if they cover up or gouge out one eye they'll be okay.)
15
posted on
10/09/2008 2:21:26 PM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: AJKauf
These Iranian government officials are just flat irrational.
16
posted on
10/09/2008 2:22:37 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
To: AJKauf
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posted on
10/09/2008 2:51:53 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
To: skeeter
Haha, no, they only attack those of the Christian faith.
Mohammedanism gets a pass.
18
posted on
10/09/2008 2:54:29 PM PDT
by
Boiling Pots
(Wright, Ayers, Alinsky, ACORN and Odinga - Attack!!)
To: popdonnelly
They sound more stoned than a California lawmaker
To: AJKauf
They’d prefer “Cliterectomy Barby”.
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posted on
10/09/2008 2:57:31 PM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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