The National Post‘s Barbara Kay has reviewed the Burka Barbie and asks why the world’s most famous fashion doll is wearing a burka, a “symbol of oppression”. From the provocative article:
“In the eyes of the majority who do consider both dolls and guns natural objects of play, however, there should be no moral distinction between Burka Barbie and a putative G.I. Joe figure in a suicide vest for essentially they both represent a medieval Islamist worldview that flies in the face of the West’s most cherished values: equality of men and women and respect for human life, including one’s own”.
Read the column here.
Mark Steyn (Maclean’s) also comments on the Burka Barbie in the Dec 14th edition: “The burqa, the niqab and the hijab are not fashion statements but explicitly political ones, and what they symbolize in a Western context is self-segregation” (p. 57).
Reuters reports that a bill will be introduced in January in France to ban full Islamic veils in all public places.