IKEA removes women from Muslim version of catalogue

Associated
Press – This is two photos made available Monday Oct. 1, 2012 by Ikea
in Sweden and taken from Swedish, left, and Saudi Arabian, right, IKEA
catalogue for 2013 . 

Want to sell goods to the Muslim world? Then make the women disappear. IKEA already has its own brand of hijab for its Muslim staff. Quietly the dhimmis go into the night …..

“IKEA Ikea deleted women from Saudi version of catalogue” Yahoo (thanks to Urban Infidel)

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Ikea is being criticized for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its furniture catalogue, a move the company says it regrets.

Comparing
the Swedish and Saudi versions of the catalogue, free newspaper Metro
on Monday showed that women had been airbrushed out of otherwise
identical pictures showcasing the company’s home furnishings.

The
report raised questions in Sweden about Ikea’s commitment to gender
equality, and the company released a statement expressing “regret” over
the issue.

“We should have reacted and realized that excluding women from the Saudi Arabian version of the catalogue is in conflict with the IKEA Group values,” the company said.

Women
appear only infrequently in Saudi-run advertising, mostly on
Saudi-owned TV channels that show women in long dresses, scarves
covering their hair and long sleeves. In imported magazines, censors
black out many parts of a woman’s body including arms, legs and chest.