via media.kansas.com
“Little Mommy Cuddle N’ Coo” doll. The doll is being pulled off store shelves because it supposedly says, “Islam is the light.” Toymaker Mattel says the doll does not say that and is only cooing.
And they have video. Just dying here.
This actually sparked a pretty intense argument between a girl at school and myself. Her father is fronting an effort to remove the doll from stores, saying that he is “from a town of 30,000 people with 46 churches in it and I know someone who attends each one. I’m going to everyone I know to tell them about this and I’m going to call Target and Wal-Mart and see if we can pull this doll off the shelves.”
This is the kind of stuff that really makes me hate where I live, because she brought this thing to school and was showing it around, saying that it said the hidden message, and was met with nods of agreement; I asserted that it was cooing and that this was all a bunch of sensational bullshit. People only hear the words because they want to for some reason. To prove the point, I had someone completely outside the situation listen without telling them what the supposed message was. She didn’t hear anything. And I get accused of being the kind of person that calls her dad a redneck terrorist.
In a way, it is terrorism. Way to fan the fires of Islamophobia.
The funniest thing is the idea that little kids will be “indoctrinated” by this toy. Maybe I should start reading the writings of Pat Robertson to my baby sister and see if she grows up to be an intolerant blowhard.
