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...Crimson editorial executive, answered Ismail’s concerns on the Crimson’s Editorial page the next day. The back page, he explained in an editorial, was a parody designed to critique the Fulla doll’s proud endorsement of Muslim values. “The Salient??s back page is a parody premised on the seemingly absurd yet real attempt to turn licentious, Western Barbie into an equivalent befitting the Arab world, where a number of states are dominated by radical Islamic values,” he wrote...
This may be happening, but it did not happen after his parody. Yasin, for one, has focused on The Salient??s tactics and not its message. “If their sole goal is attention,” he says, “they sound kinda like a selfish child...
With cases like that in mind, Yasin contacted Kavulla and Ryan M. McCaffrey ’07, The Salient??s publisher, to voice his concerns with the Fulla doll parody. “I told them that we felt the piece was inappropriate and degrading to Muslims,” he says. “They told us to take it with a grain of salt and refused to apologize...
...craziest ideas one witnesses in the Middle East, only in the lingo of Barbie.So just as Talking Barbie might exclaim, “I hate math!” and appear trussed up in the most immodest garb imaginable, a talking Fulla doll might exclaim, as the Oct. 13 Salient??s parody advertisement imagined it, “I like shopping!” Yet, before going to the bazaar, perhaps Fulla, unlike Barbie, would have to seek out her misplaced abaya, the full-length garment that her culture and her religion require her to wear while outdoors.The...
...itself. Sometimes, a person’s preconceived notions about you cannot be corrected. But when stereotypes are actively promoted, it is almost impossible to properly inform others. In our society, people are bombarded on all sides with voices against Islam—such as the ad in the Salient??and hear few on its behalf. This makes it more likely that people will believe the stereotypes and see their Muslim friends as the exceptions to the rule instead of the rule. The Salient??s decision also points to a deeper problem in today?...