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Crudely Islamified Mannequin Man Is Here To Crudely Islamify Your Heart

Taking over Lakemba one clothing-store dummy at a time.

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The Daily Telegraph’s double-page spread on Lakemba, or “Muslim Land”, last week was a textbook exercise in lazy race-baiting, but the best part was how it tried to turn a store dummy with a beard drawn on it into a chilling symbol of how Islam is slowly taking over our suburbs. He looks like this:

The Tele described the poor dummy as “crudely Islamified”, a process no doubt achieved by a sinister cabal of cackling men in turbans feeding it halal meat and hummus until it grew some dark facial hair and turned to face Mecca. Since then, old mate Mannequin Man has become a minor hit, with Twitter hero @ottomanscribe dragging him around the Haldon Street Festival held on Lakemba’s main drag over the weekend and taking selfies with the locals.

 

 

He even has his own Facebook page, where he gets up to wacky antics like posting side-by-side comparison shots with celebrities and plotting to establish the glorious pan-continental Islamic mannequin republic.

Bless you, Crudely Islamified Mannequin Man. You have crudely Islamified my heart.


Feature image via The Crudely Islamified Lakemba Mannequin Man/Facebook.