Those Moderate Swedes!

One wonders if the mags were bound for Malmo, eh, Jon Kay?

Oh I'm sure it was all just a huuuuugeee misunderstanding, yeah that's it.

Mo (pbuh) thinks that woman standing in front of the mirror is showing way to many outlines on her body.

Thousands of Burka minded men would be forced into committing rape.

Now,if someone with a sense of humour at Ikea would insert another adult male into the picture, we'd have a gay couple raising the kids.

Then we could see how long it would take before the Saudi/Wahabbis figure it out,and clog the streets of every major city in the world in violent protest.

F**k these people are getting predictable,and BORING!

Yeah, so? Why are people so shocked by what the Saudis do? They haven't changed since they drove camels and western faux outrage isn't going to change diddly. Ikea is just doing what the paying customer wants. The buck or krona speaks the loudest.

And the Allen keys have been - ahem - re-Christened as Allah keys.

They did it so they wouldn't offend the gay muslims

From one of the facebook comments on the news item site:

We have let these animals dictate to us for way too long and it isn't going to stop in the foreseeable future. No one is going to do anything and it is just a matter of time before they take over the planet.

I totally agree: IKEA is getting way out of hand. You can't drive anywhere without seeing one of their big blue box stores, and you can't go into any dorm or starter home without seeing all sorts of particle board and MDF crap. And don't get me started on their $1 breakfasts and those damn meatballs. We have to take a stand.

IKEA delenda est!

Don't worry. I'm sure many feminist organizations will be up in arms at this turn of events, and demand Ikea return the vanishing women.

Or not.

OMG! Capitalists tweaking marketing strategies to sell more products in foreign markets?!!! What is this world coming to?!!! Next thing you know, Albertans might sell off part of the tar sands to Arabs or something. Oh, wait.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/08/31/kuwait-athabaska.html

For the record, yeah, it's pretty sh!itty that they do this, but hey... the market dictates how people will behave and we shouldn't ever question it, right?

This is a cunning CIA initiative. If the Saudis buy lots of Ikea products then their kitchens will disintigrate and snap and generally suck just like ours do. This will undermine morale.

(BTW - any Halifax area Dead Gophers [I want a t-shirt but that's a seperate matter] notice that suddenly, say within the last five years, there are women in headscarves and sometimes the full face-covering everywhere? Did any of you lot vote for this? 'Cause it sure wasn't me. Must have been you guys.)

Yeah well the Swedes seem bent on accomodating these savages.....Finns not so much.

I endorse the Finns.

IKEA just told all women around the world that they are useless nobodies and to go f*ck themselves because they don’t count when it matters.

BTW who buys that euro-junk anyway?

Sharia Ikea.

Maybe a few Swedes are fed up with feminism. After all, sharia is the sovereign remedy for radical feminism.

So IKEA catalogs have become like US dollar bills.

Any conservatives/libertarians/free-marketers for a 50 % quota for women's pics in catalogs printed by the private sector?

Just one more reason not to shop at that over rated toilet.

OK, so IKEA went politically correct stupid but let's wait and see if they follow up on this and reverse that idiotic decision.

"After public outrage, Ikea has released a statement saying "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."

I for one will wait to see what their group values are. Maybe there are still some balls left in that country beside their crappy little meatballs.

IKEA has every right to market as they please.

LAS >

"IKEA has every right to market as they please.'

Absolutely!

Just as everyone else has every right to publicly mock, shun, and boycott them as they please.

A Little like all the homo calls to boycott Chic-fil-a because the owner stated that he doesn’t believe in gay marriage. Of course that’s just his personal opinion; it’s very unlikely that he would actually hang them like they do in Saudi. I would also hazard a guess that he would not approve of bending other personal values to accommodate the Saudis. But what the hey, guess you just pick a side and run with it.

The gay lobby is very selective of who and which businesses are worth their vitriol, nothing personal.

LAS said: "IKEA has every right to market as they please."

Indeed. And it seems they please to abandon every liberal value Swedes ever professed to hold about women's rights and equality.

Having spent much time in Muslim countries, allot of magazines showing innocuous photo’s of white women in particular are banned as pornography.

This is not only due to Islamic law but a real legal problem because many of the young males whip themselves up into sexual frenzy’s and attack/ rape local women just viewing the photos. This is a well known phenomenon in many Muslim countries, especially “back in the sticks”. I have also encountered this in Papua New Guinea a non Muslim country, and most probably it occurs in any third world craphole.

The brutal rape & murder crimes that frequently occur in these places are mind boggling, I have several personal stories that had occurred within blocks of me, once a massive gang rape, grotesque mutilations, and murder of many women one Friday night in Algeria after Mosque services let out.

The socons (Svensk joke,volvo wagon drivers; "socialist containers") have always made keeping the payola flowing their number one priority.

If it comes out of your pocket, fine, let's do good. But if you touch my coin, watch out!

Need a new volvo next year you know, and a cottage at the sea, and 4 weeks in Thailand, and my indexed bureaucrat pension, and, and...

Old Ingvar is no different, and rumoured to be somewhat anti semitic to boot.

Sure, LAS, they do.

Let's airbrush the gays out of a magazine. We can pretend it's an Iranian publication (because there are no gays there- not anymore, anyway).

Now- why would anyone frequent a store that would treat women like that?

If the pig Saudis want to treat women like crap and IKEA wants to help, fine. No more IKEA and let's draw the House of Saud with their child-raping war-monger Mohammad as pigs.

I'll be buying Danish cookies just for them.

The only thing I buy from IKEA is their Graddsas sauce mix.

Their furniture is nothing but over-priced kindling and every time I go there I make sure to park my pickup truck in their "green car" parking spaces.

The only thing I buy from IKEA is their Graddsas sauce mix.

Their furniture is nothing but over-priced kindling and every time I go there I make sure to park my pickup truck in their "green car" parking spaces.

I would lie on a bed of nails before I would buy there. Their faux social conscious fits nicely with their fake furniture.

nold, "Their faux social conscious fits nicely with their fake furniture." Well said.

eurefugee, nice to hear from you. Come more often.

What is it with the liberal philosophy of constantly caving in to the Islamic culture that wants to physically and culturally destroy us. Bunch of Lemmings.

OT, and now the big anti-fracking movie staring Matt Damon and funded by the United Emirates is being foisted on North Americans.

The source for United Emirates funding the movie was a segment on the Ezra Levant show on Sun News.

Thank you for your kindness Ken.
Visit often, but not always time (or wisdom!) to contribute.

Very much like reading your insights on the destructiveness of totalitarianism. And economic socialism, or theological fascism, they are two deadly peas in a pod.

As LAS commented, Ikea has a right to bend over for islamofascists and we've got the right to not shop there. OTOH, it's kind of hard for me to boycott Ikea as the nearest store is in Coquitlam.

Still have my Ikea furniture from my student days and the nice thing about it is that it comes apart easily for moving (which I used to do a lot back then).

When's Ezra interviewing the Pres. of IKEA Canada?