The Arab answer to Barbie has been selling like hot cakes for Eid Al Adha, the most important holiday in the Muslim calendar, not least because it is cheaper than its American rival, although both are made in China.

Fulla is not the first Islamic doll but none of her predecessors have taken the regional market by storm like she has, selling some 2 million since its creation two years ago by the Emirates-based NewBoy Design Studio.

Saudi Arabia's religious police had then just banned "Barbie the Jewish doll", whose "revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West."

And I always though Barbie was the ultimate shiksa!  I also didn't know it was un-Islamic to accesorize. Also, exactly what kind of "tools" does Barbie come with anyway?