Can you call this Journalism?

Jenna Debryn shows off a Razanne doll at her home in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., Aug. 27, 2003. Razanne is all about modesty and piety compared to Barbie's gelled and buffon-coiffed beau flaunts. The doll fills not only a marketing void, but also offers Muslim girls someone with whom they can relate. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Okay, I know it’s just a picture caption but what in the name of all that’s good is the AP printing Islamic cheerleading crap like this for? I am stunned by the line, “Razanne is all about modesty and piety compared to Barbie's gelled and buffon-coiffed beau flaunts.”. Why doesn’t the AP just come out with it and say that the west is a depraved craven godless immoral mess and only by committing ourselves to the service of Allah can we achieve paradise?

One thing the AP got right is that Razanne does offer young Muslim girls a doll they can truly relate. Really, how could a young Muslim girl understand Barbie when Barbie is a free, emancipated women living in a culture that holds liberty and freedom of expression as some of it’s highest ideals? How can young Muslim girls be asked to understand a doll that can do as it pleases, marry whom it wants, go where it chooses at any time of the day and with whomever she likes? Thank Allah that Razanne is here to teach young Muslim girls their place.