MUSLIM WORLD: Barbie’s 50th anniversary Islamic makeover
But not everyone shared such excitement over Barbie’s new conservative Islamic look.
Critics such as Barbara Kay in Canada slammed Barbie’s Muslim dress as a “symbol of oppression” and ripped Ellis’ commentary in an article recently published in Canada’s the National Post newspaper.
“I have seen some pretty tawdry advertising campaigns in my time, but I must say this one takes the cake for insensitivity. What’s next in dolls that are ‘important for girls’ to play with? ‘Illiterate Barbie’? ‘Forced-Marriage Barbie’?” she wrote.
Instead, Kay branded Burka Barbie a “mockery of disempowered women” who, she said, have been “stripped of human dignity.”