Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Bowing to authoritarian regimes

Swedish furniture chain Ikea shows us how to bow to authoritarian regimes. The Swedish Wire blog explains:
Ikea's catalog is printed in 198 million copies and looks almost the same in 27 languages and in 38 countries. With one big exception. In the Saudi Arabian version of the catalog almost all women have been erased, Swedish newspaper Metro said. Sweden's minister of trade Ewa Björling said the retouched images are a "sad example" of women oppression.
I found this at the Foreign Policy's Passport blog: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/01/ikea_airbrushes_women_out_of_saudi_catalog

1 comment:

Terri Wagner said...

The really ugly part of Islam and whatsher name is worried about Mormon women, sheesh