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2003-09-10 Arabia

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Posted by Steve White 2003-09-10 12:57:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Where did they get the idea Barbie is Jewish? I don't recall seeing "Bat Mitzvah Barbie" or "IDF Ken" in the store! (Yeah, yeah, I know she was always seeing GI Joe on the side......)
I do like the dateline, however. "Saudi-controlled Arabia"?

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-9-10 1:14:46 AM|| 2003-9-10 1:14:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Just get a Burka Barbie on the market and all will be fine. Just make a skeletal framework inside so if the black outfit comes off, nobody sees anything except something that looks like a miniature steel frame of a skyscraper.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-10 1:22:39 AM|| 2003-9-10 1:22:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't play dumb Baba. Everyone knows that Debbie Hirshfeld had the most luscious tatas in my 9th grade class. And AP, it would take a lot more than a mere burka to hide those delicious twin peaks... I mean, it wasn't just that they were large-- which they were-- but also their perky upward and forward thrust, plus... uh, I seem to be digressing from the topic... which was?

Posted by TPF 2003-9-10 1:54:13 AM|| 2003-9-10 1:54:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 At least this makes more sense than that article about Al-Queada saying Arafish was evil. Someone want to post something on that, I'm just plain out to lazy. ( AKA I'm a really lazy person. )

Posted by Charles 2003-9-10 2:08:01 AM|| 2003-9-10 2:08:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Baba...I hope you're joking.In those parts,ALL bad things are caused by the JEW,therefore,so is Barbie.And Pokemon.Ditto Heavy Metal.Follow the logic?

Posted by El Id 2003-9-10 5:53:58 AM|| 2003-9-10 5:53:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Work is going on even as we speak at Eglin on the Barbie bomb. It's a rigged wind corrected munitions dispenser able to spread the Bablets over a multi acre sized area. Mattel is the major sub-contractor.

Posted by Shipman 2003-9-10 7:45:30 AM|| 2003-9-10 7:45:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 What is it about Islam that it is so terrified of such things as Barbie? I mean a *true* follower of any religion would not be involved in those things which are 'offensive' to that religion anyway. Weather it is Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddist, Pagan or Athiest. So whats the beef?

Why does this organization have to 'protect' people (read: force their beliefs on everyone else)? Is Islam (and peoples belief in it) so weak that a silly fashion doll can destroy it?

I'l not trying to be anti-Islamic or anything. I just want to know.

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-9-10 9:17:42 AM|| 2003-9-10 9:17:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Methinks a "Shaheed and His 72 Virgins" Barbie collection would speed recruitment amongst the holy youth at the madrissas! In'shallah! The martyrs would be lining up endlessly after viewing this lucky shaheed being serviced by 72 virgin Barbies!
_______________borgboy

Posted by borgboy 2003-9-10 10:38:10 AM|| 2003-9-10 10:38:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe if we pointed out that Barbies (pbuh) are for girls to play with, not for the mullahs...

Posted by flash91 - fatwah you talkin bout willis 2003-9-10 10:56:31 AM|| 2003-9-10 10:56:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, c'mon. What's wrong with Barbie?
http://www.c-wilkie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/jokes/pages/barbie1.html

Posted by mojo 2003-9-10 11:16:19 AM|| 2003-9-10 11:16:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 TPF--Uh, no, I never noticed. But then, I was busy checking out the football team. Or the basketball team. ;)
CrazyFool--maybe it's the missionary aspect of the religion (Wahhabism) that makes them that way. If they can't make you convert to their way of thinking, they damn sure are going to try to make your behavior conform to their standards. That way it saves the faithful from the eeevillllllll influence of watching the infidels enjoying the forbidden fun thing (drinking, gambling, playing with Barbie), and reduces the danger of being led away from the faith.

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-9-10 11:47:12 AM|| 2003-9-10 11:47:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 COFFEE ALERT!!!

Remember folks, at least the way the Wahabbists play the game, a Muslim man is never responsible for his behavior if he can claim he was tempted - no discipline is req'd. And, they have a big problem with graven images, too - recall the logo story from a few weeks ago?

BTW, $27 is 100 Riyals - a nice round (like Barbie's outstanding) figure.

Posted by .com (a.k.a. Abu This!) 2003-9-10 12:05:55 PM|| 2003-9-10 12:05:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I am trying to triangulate in on this issue. I think that Arabian Barbie should be sold without hands. All sides would agree to that.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-10 12:19:05 PM|| 2003-9-10 12:19:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Actually I think Barbie looks more like a classic shiksa

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-9-10 1:08:10 PM|| 2003-9-10 1:08:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 They would rather have sex with camels and mules than Blonde babes!

Posted by Greg 2003-9-10 1:52:31 PM|| 2003-9-10 1:52:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Greg - and goats. You left out the goats. Goats are more common in the Middle East than mules. Unless you were classifying some of the things disquised with burkhas as mules, then I can accept that...

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-10 2:31:12 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-10 2:31:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Crazy Fool: Don't take this as being lame or cliched, but it's not Islam, it's Wahibism. To explain Wahibism to the unitiated (not that you are unitiated) you need to know it is based on the belief that ALL temptation must be eradicated so that sin cannot develop. (Remember the mutawwa's other English translated title is the Committees for the Promotion of Virtue and ELIMINATION of Vice) Ergo, the ban on female drivers in the Kingdom. In free countries, it is understood that the inherent benefits, rights and freedoms will be abused by a few, but overall, society as a whole will benefit if all have the opportunities to practice them. So free countries allow women to drive eventhough some women will use cars to liase with men who are not their husbands. But most women will use cars wisely as they have jobs to go to, kids to drop off, and just to get to where they want to go. In Saudi, this minority of women who might bring dishonor to their menfolk spoils everthing for the straight-pathed majority. Result: NO women can drive. So many families hire drivers from India, Pakland, etc. just to enable mama to live a semi-normal life. Same reasoning for prohibitions on mixing of the sexes at work.

One liberal Saudi friend once told me that the driving/working bans were stupid because Saudi women could always have affairs with their drivers; his anecdotal evidence show they do, although the Arab News won't carry the stories. Wonder why?

.com is also correct on how it's never the guy's fault there for succumbing to temptation, but rather the woman's walking around the mall without something covering her blond hair that made the guy ask her if she wanted to go to his house for a session. She would be lucky, BTW, if that's all that transpired.

And this just scratches the surface of life in the Magic Kingdom.

Posted by Michael 2003-9-10 3:10:36 PM|| 2003-9-10 3:10:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 New Saudi Barbie

Posted by DANEgerus 2003-9-10 4:17:09 PM|| [http://www.danegerus.com/weblog] 2003-9-10 4:17:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Mullahs don't play with Barbies. They prefer younger girls.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-9-10 6:02:35 PM|| 2003-9-10 6:02:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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