The left is coming for you.
They’re coming for your movies, your television shows, your music, your football, and even your kids.
The left is doing their best to push a progressive agenda, and now they’re exploiting a classic toy brand to do it.
Mattel just released their latest version of Barbie Doll with one particular accessory—a hijab. Because somehow forced head coverings are empowering to little girls.
From Breitbart:
Mattel released a hijab-wearing Barbie doll on Monday, modeled after Muslim American Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad as part of the toy company’s “Shero” program.
Glamour magazine presented the doll in Muhammad’s honor at the Woman of the Year summit in New York City Monday, the New York Post reports.
“Ibtihaj Muhammad has challenged every stereotype — which to me is the definition of a modern American woman,” Glamour’s editor-in-chief, Cindi Leive, said in a statement.
Muhammad, an Olympic fencer who made her claim to fame as the first American woman to compete in the Olympics while wearing a headscarf, praised the Shero program on social media and thanked those who chose to make the doll in her honor.
“The Barbie Shero Program recognizes women who break boundaries to inspire the next generation of girls, and I am so excited to join this incredible group of women,” Muhammad wrote on Instagram. “I’m proud to know that little girls everywhere can now play with a Barbie who chooses to wear hijab! This is a childhood dream come true.”
The Olympian won a bronze medal in fencing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Mattel said the doll would be available for purchase next fall.
Mattel’s “Shero” program has also created dolls in honor of other celebrities, such as gymnast Gabby Douglas, Selma director Ava DuVernay, and plus-size model Ashley Graham.
Mattel rolled out curvy, petite, and tall versions of the Barbie doll in 2016, and the company introduced Ken dolls, available in several different skin tones and three different body types.
The fact that feminists remain silent on the subjugation of women in Islamic culture is one of the left’s starkest contradictions.
But people on the left will tolerate anyone who shares their disdain for the “patriarchal”, capitalistic West.
It’s the reason why Glamour magazine proudly named Linda Sarsour as Woman of the Year.
Sarsour is a radical Muslim who has promoted Sharia law, called for Jihad against the White House, told Muslims in the West not to assimilate, said Zionists could not be part of the feminist movement, and viciously insulted ex-Muslims who were victims of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation.
None of that sounds exemplary or empowering to anyone except radicals.
Ibtihaj Muhammad is an Olympic medalist, so it’s perfectly understandable she be honored for her achievements. But this is clearly part of a larger culture war that has more to do with inculcation than recreation.
Why else would Mattel release a doll for a film director that one would guess is not well-known among the Barbie Doll demographic?