Saturday, November 20, 2010
To counter the "enemies' cultural invasion", Iran invents Fatima, the answer to Barbie!!!
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Meanwhile, the Iranian company Fam says it has created "Fatima," the first Islamic doll. Though two previous dolls -- "Sarah" and "Dara" -- were supposed to counter Barbie and Ken, they were not very popular in the Islamic Republic. But Fatima has a more Islamic visage and is meant to battle against the "enemies' cultural invasion" of Iran.
"By creating Barbie and marketing it, Westerners are encouraging bad veiling and not wearing the hijab," Hossein Seresht, a representative of Fam, told YNet. "All of these factors led us to take it as our duty to present Islamic dolls to the market." Full story...
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