Belgium: Burka advertising

Belgian P Magazine came up with several innovative ways to advertise its series of articles about women in Afghanistan.

One was to print up burka-bags:



The magazine also let its journalist walk the streets of Knokke, a coastal town, clad with a burka, gathering up reactions:




And later used it to advertise their reports, showing that what is common in one part of the word, is considered quite unusual in another:




Sources: P-Magazine (Dutch), Coloribus (English)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was good promotion but a burqa is not a fashion signifying the differences in the world. It symbolises the repression of women. Two hundred years ago a slave in chains could have walked down streets and had the same symbolic significance.

Anonymous said...

It's not the first commercial and it will not be the last commercial in Europe that promotes the Islamic dress.

European style of open mindedness just loves these kind of ‘cultural’ manifestations. Just 5 minutes ago I spotted the latest Vodafone commercial on TV including the head scarf woman. Vodofone is just so cool. It’s cool to be subjugated. It’s like a time machine!

Anonymous said...

The video with the blue burkah'd female on the bench was clearly non-plus'd. The bagged one had no obvious handler, and was dishonoring her family by sitting (quite closely at that )next to an infidel! Isn't that a stoning offense?