Posted on 01/16/2012 4:54:09 PM PST by Eleutheria5
The Iranian morality police are extending the long reach of the law to dolls, and has activated an official ban on the sale of Barbies.
Meet Dara and Sara -- complete with a little head scarf for the eight year old Muslim girl doll.
The ban on the pert little American teenage doll produced by the U.S.-based Mattel Company, as well as the accessories she comes with, is part of the response to tightened sanctions against the Islamic Republic by Western nations. Muslim clerics had already succeeded in banning the curvaceous cutie in Saudi Arabia in 2003, outlawing Barbie altogether by declaring her "offensive to Islam."
But Islamic leaders in Iran have been complaining about Barbie's "destructive cultural and social consequences" since 1996.
Now, Iranians are being introduced to a new couple, albeit chaste siblings, to replace Barbie and her friend Ken. Meet Dara and Sara.
According to a release published Monday on the Iranian Islam for Today website, "The Muslim dolls have been developed by a government agency to promote traditional values, with their modest clothing and pro-family backgrounds. They are widely seen as an effort to counter the American dolls and accessories that have flooded the Iranian market."
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Wow. I want one.
Looks like there’ll be a glut of them. The US has cut off all Mattel products from Iran in an effort to pose as if they’re tightening sanctions. Mattel applied for a bailout and got it, and dumped the entire Jihad Barbie line on E-bay.
Don’t tell the Iranians, but there are actually millions of GI Joe action figures infiltrating their country, disguised under burkhas.
The Dara and Sara action set comes with motorcycle
and magnetic bomb...exploding car and nuclear scientist
sold separately.
They had to learn how to balance water jugs on their heads, or their cover would be blown.
Are they anatomically correct with the clitoris already mutilated?
Of course.
Sara’s accessory kit comes with a bag of rocks and a whip just in case she strays from teachings found in the Koran.
Sara’s accessory kit comes with a bag of rocks and a whip just in case she strays from teachings found in the Koran.
Dara comes with a camcorder and large knife, in case she runs into any infidel journalists and wants to record their beheading.
Didn’t they use to make GI Joes as well? I bet that’s what really has the mullahs in a snit, at least it would have under Bush. Obama GI Joes would just sing Kumbaya when you pulled the string.
This just in. Sara has captured a Jihad Ken doll, and denounced him as a CIA spy. Jihad Ken swears that he is a sincere convert to Islam, but will be publicly executed to retaliate against the US.
They’ll also say “can’t we all just get along,” and “I surrender”. Jihad Ken and Barbie will say “death to America,” “Nuclear bombs? What nuclear bombs?” and “The Jooos! are behind this” in Farsi, Arabic and English. Dara and Sara will be silent, as befits a true Islamic maiden.
We don’t want to hurt any Iranian feelings, We’ll put a rag on Mitt’s head and call him Dara.
Are they aware that Sara is a Jewish name?
No, it was Islamic until the Jooos! stole it from them.
After all, they are eight years old. They’ll be getting married soon.
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