Mattel Continues History of Oppression By Burqa’ing Barbie! RAWR!

So, I’m going to confess something here: I loved Barbie.

I loved Barbie until my teenage conditioning would no longer allow it; social mores are far more destructive than we are willing to admit. I loved her in her varying peach skin tones, sometimes sun-kissed tan, sometimes victorian pale. Her silky hair – sometimes wavy, sometimes straight; sometimes blonde and sometimes an auburn brown. And let’s not forget her killer fashion sense and knock out unrealistic measurements.

Nobody Loves Brad Garrett

Brad Garrett who is known for his sitcom work, most notably on Everybody Loves Raymondignited a new racial controversy yesterday when he dropped some racial slurs at a paparazzo during a heated argument in the middle of the street. His words proof that bizarre things happen in real life not just in sitcoms. In the [...]

A Case for the Abaya

Much reviled in academic essays by right-wing blog-o-sphere superstars as an anti-feminist “veil of oppression” and at times overly-theorized by Western scholars, the abaya is yet another Middle Eastern victim of misrepresentation in the West.  During my two weeks in the Emirates, I spent nearly everyday draped in the shoulder-to-toe black cloak-a decision made by [...]

What is UO thinking?

Really? With a generic description that makes no reference to the etched centerpiece, Urban Outfitters’ advertises a brown “leather and rope” الله‎ bracelet for $8 on their website. First the Kuffiyah Kontroversy of 2006 and now this. I don’t understand the motivations of the buyers for UO in this case either. Shock Value or New [...]

Who Says Islamofascists Don’t Have a Sense of Humor?

Because everyone needs to let loose sometimes.

American Corporate Symbols that Border on Haram

A facebook group opposing the new Apple Store in New York city is growing. Its focus of protest is not on the legions of hipsters and PC-trashing applesnobs that will waste many afternoons there playing with gadgetry, nor on Steve Jobs apparent disinterest in his Syrian ancestry. They are peeved it strongly resembles the kaaba, [...]

Hijab Wearers banned from sitting behind Obama at Rally…….

Talk about non-inclusive change. Sometimes I wonder, are we really headed to something new? Something fresh? Or is this just another ooooordinary daaay. These two girls went to an Obama rally rocking their Hijabs, and they wouldn’t let them sit in the seats they got because of their headgear (right behind Obama) Ooooooooooohhhhhhh baaaaammmmmaaaa…I hope [...]

America Does Away With Algebra and the Numeral System

Because, just like the “scarf,” it is “too Arab” . Although Will already posted on this, I think it is worth re-opening an already active discussion by shedding some light on the cyber responses to the pulling of Dunkin Donut’s online AD featuring Rachael Ray. In a post about the DD commercial, The Huffington Post [...]

Palestine Still Too Hot for (Sub)Urban Outfitters

Urban Outfitters, that great supplier of post-adolescent, hipster-in-training, wares has once again alienated supporters of Israel. One of its t-shirts, which was featured on a previous KABOBpost, features young, apparently, Palestinian youth with Kaleshnikovs and kuffiyehs, the Palestinian flag and the word “victimized” written in a bad 1980sesque graf font. After another campaign, similar to [...]

Keffiyeh infiltrates our nation’s youth

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