Sears: Get Your “Sexy Middle Eastern Arab Girl Burka-Halloween Costume”
25 October 2012
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Sears: Get Your “Sexy Middle Eastern Arab Girl Burka-Halloween Costume”
by Mooneye
For when you want to look like a “savage?”
In a twist to the Islamophobes’ “Halloween Jihad” theme, this year Sears was hawking a “fetishized Islamic ‘Arab girl’ burka-wearing ‘temptress’” costume for Halloween. Clearly, someone in Sears’ sales department thought selling such an “ethnic” costume was a good idea, there is a demand out there for “funny-Ay-rab-Mooslimy-savages” costumes and being the good Capitalists they are Sears wanted to corner that market.
At the time of the capture of the screenshot Sears either sold out or yanked the “product” from its line of Halloween costumes. It can still be found for sale on other sites like Buy.com.
According to tipster Sulayman F. a “student on Tumblr noticed it when doing a school project and searching google for images of Burkas.”
Sulayman went on to comment that, “This isn’t necessarily racist, but extremely degrading to the culture when the whole point of the burka is to preserve the modesty of the religious (from what I understand). And to add insult to injury, the description reads ‘Sexy In the Desert’.”
I concur that it is pretty degrading, and another ludicrous example of Halloween gone strangely awry. For some reason it is the one day of the year when people think they can dress up in whatever costume, Native American, Black face, “Arab girl” etc. and think they have a free pass from scrutiny and criticism. The reply goes something like, “get a sense of humor!”
What these people don’t realize is that this is not a costume for the people who actually wear “Niqabs” or “Burkas.”
What are your thoughts?
Oh for crying out loud, get over yourselves. People wear all sorts of costumes at halloween.
25 October 2012 at 2:50 pm