Not that we should expect anything else, but when big business sniffs out an opportunity, it doesn’t matter how controversial or stupid the idea may seem: if it’ll sell, it’s on!

For the 50th anniversary of our favorite plastic female icon, Mattel made a bunch of Barbie’s wearing burkas and looking satisfactorily Middle-Eastern.

Fortunately, even the religious zealots of Saudi Arabia and other countries have condemned the dolls, called it a “symbol of decadence to the perverted West.” I wonder if they ever think that having a real women dressed in a burka and treated like chattel is less perverted?

http://www.examiner.com/x-8947-LA-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m12d10-Hey-kids-Its-Burka-Barbie