Muslim Dress Up Games Hijab
Mattel has aloof launched a new hijab-wearing Barbie baby aggressive by Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad.
["582"]The company's move to accommodate a baby in Islamic dress has acquired absolutely a altercation online, with bodies for it and adjoin it speaking out.
Chelsea Clinton tweeted, "LOVE this. Barbie fabricated their aboriginal hijab-wearing "Shero" baby in account of American angry brilliant Ibtihaj Muhammad."
"I adulation this...Its aerial time," Melissa Strong posted.
On the added side, one woman against to the baby threatened to avoid Mattel saying, "As a Christian, I acquisition your accommodation to accomplish a Hijab cutting Barbie abhorrent and in poor taste." I am allurement that you DENOUNCE this and accommodate a accessible apology.
["465.6"]Mattel appear the new baby to account Muhammad for breaking barriers for Muslim women, who are generally oppressed.
For example, for decades Saudi Arabia forbade women from active a car and alone afresh appear it will abate the law.
According to a CNN article, women there are additionally not accustomed to marry, divorce, travel, or get a job after permission from their macho guardians.
Muhammad was the first-ever U.S. Olympic amateur to attempt cutting a arch bandage at the 2016 Rio Olympic games, area she won a brownish medal. The new Barbie is allotment of Mattel's "Shero Program," which highlights women who advance through and claiming boundaries in their field.
["465.6"]"Barbie is adulatory Ibtihaj not alone for her accolades as an Olympian, but for all-embracing what makes her angle out," Barbie's vice-president of marketing, Sejal Shah Miller, said in a statement. "Ibtihaj is an afflatus to endless girls who never saw themselves represented. By anniversary her story, we achievement this baby reminds them that they can be and do anything."
However, one Middle Eastern man said the bulletin abaft the new baby has annihilation to do with Muhammad's accomplishments.
"Barbie in the eyes of abounding Americans is the (idealistic) American girl. By putting a blind or a hijab over her head, Muslims are sending a adventurous account that the ideal American babe should be veiled," Soloman Daniel told CBN News.
Muhammad took to amusing media to accurate her acknowledgment for the account of accepting a baby fabricated in her likeness.
["582"]"The Barbie Shero Program recognizes women who breach boundaries to affect the abutting bearing of girls and I am so aflame to accompany this absurd accumulation of women," Muhammad wrote on Instagram. "I'm appreciative to apperceive that little girls everywhere can now comedy with a Barbie who chooses to abrasion hijab! This is a adolescence dream appear true."
But Daniel couldn't disagree more.
"They capital to bulb in the hearts and minds of kids that it is OK and accustomed for girls to catechumen to Islam, Barbie did," he commented.
"They are additionally application this Islamic Barbie as a beheld educational apparatus to acknowledgment the questions about the Islamic doctrine, including why a babe should be buried and how Islam brings (honor) and (virtue) to women. This is a new action to advance the man fabricated peaceful adaptation of Islam," he said.
["582"]Meanwhile, Matell additionally includes dolls in assorted shapes, sizes and colors.
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