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Shopper Says Doll Spreads Islamic Message (Creepy)
The Chronicle ^ | Dec. 13, 2008 | Eric Schwartz

Posted on 12/13/2008 6:06:09 AM PST by AmericanMade1776

Dressed in yellow pajamas and a soft felt cap, the Fisher Price “Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo” doll is not unlike many other toys on sale this holiday season.

That is, until it talks.

Centralia resident Linda Stewart was shopping for Christmas presents for her 7-year-old granddaughter when she spotted the dolls, on sale at Kmart in Chehalis for $5 apiece, she said. The baby elicits soft cooing and gibberish common in such toys, but one phrase “freaked out” Linda and her husband.

The doll, which responds to movement, says “Islam is the light,” the couple claim.

“It’s pretty clear, isn’t it,” Linda said Thursday while demonstrating the doll’s sounds for The Chronicle. “They had a whole bin. ... It was absolutely unbelievable.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chronline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: creepy; dolls; islam; mohammedanism; toys

Creepy doll says "islam is the light"


1 posted on 12/13/2008 6:06:10 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

Very weird. I listened to it at the link. WTF???


2 posted on 12/13/2008 6:09:30 AM PST by Canedawg ("The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it")
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To: Canedawg

It is very clear what the doll is saying, did you watch the you tube of the doll talking?


3 posted on 12/13/2008 6:10:18 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: Canedawg

Does Fisher-Price Doll Promote Islam?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2psa8U0S2T8


4 posted on 12/13/2008 6:11:49 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

ooh, that was creepy!


5 posted on 12/13/2008 6:15:21 AM PST by kimmie7 (***sigh***)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Doll saying ‘Islam is the light’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5d33iyPKmg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRXKkc3fqd0&feature=related


6 posted on 12/13/2008 6:15:46 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
The power of suggestion has a lot to do with it? Yeah right. I would demand my money back.

If a doll had even the slightest reference to Jesus they would pull the doll and apologize.
7 posted on 12/13/2008 6:15:55 AM PST by stentorian conservative
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To: AmericanMade1776

Yes, it seems from their press release that they do surreptitiously support the message.

I noticed the woman on youtube said the doll sold for $20, but the article said it was on sale for $5.

Did they drop the price after word leaked out and it became a clearance item, or did they drop the price to entice more people to unknowingly buy the pro-Islamic doll?


8 posted on 12/13/2008 6:18:56 AM PST by Canedawg ("The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it")
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To: AmericanMade1776

Glenn Beck had this on a show a week or two back. Creepy ain’t the half of it!


9 posted on 12/13/2008 6:19:09 AM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Creepy Dolls at Walmart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlXPgzXZlN4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcBNV4Nbri0&feature=related


10 posted on 12/13/2008 6:19:15 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

There is an easy way to see if it is an Islamic doll. Does it explode?


11 posted on 12/13/2008 6:19:38 AM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: AmericanMade1776; FARS; Fred Nerks; Squantos; Jeff Head; Libertina; AuntB; The Mayor

“Doll from Hell “ping!


12 posted on 12/13/2008 6:20:31 AM PST by Issaquahking (Obama won the election, and America lost!)
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To: NonValueAdded
NonValueAdded wrote: Glenn Beck had this on a show a week or two back. Creepy ain’t the half of it!

Since I don't watch TV that much, I had some how missed this one. And I especially have not watched the news since the election.

13 posted on 12/13/2008 6:20:36 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
What is FisherPrice saying this doll, is actually supposed to be saying? (I have purchased this doll; but did so a few months ago. . .and do not recall any such message).
14 posted on 12/13/2008 6:22:03 AM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~/)
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To: cricket

From article:
If consumers have any questions or concerns regarding any Mattel or Fisher-Price toys, they are asked to contact the consumer relations center at 1-800-524-TOYS.


15 posted on 12/13/2008 6:24:32 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

This is very strange.


16 posted on 12/13/2008 6:26:01 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Well, this can’t be true. Real Islamic baby dolls like the ones shown would’ve been burned to death long before now for being unaccompanied by an older Islamic male doll.


17 posted on 12/13/2008 6:26:05 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth ($750 billion is nothing - surrender your children, wealth and gold fillings now to avoid the rush.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Also from article:
Mattel-owned Fisher Price, which manufactures the doll, released a statement in October in response to similar concerns voiced by shoppers who have heard the same message. A sticker on the bottom of the toy’s packaging says it is made in China.


18 posted on 12/13/2008 6:26:06 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

After listening 5x and watching the video, IMNHO, it may not be exact but close enough to give one pause. Can this finally be America’s “muhammed cartoon moment”?
Let’s hope so.


19 posted on 12/13/2008 6:27:14 AM PST by fortunate sun (Tagline written in lemon juice.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

All to say, no ‘Official explanation’. . .more than ‘strange’ here.


20 posted on 12/13/2008 6:30:02 AM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~/)
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To: cricket

I did look for an official explanation at Mattel also, and could not find one.


21 posted on 12/13/2008 6:37:27 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776; cricket

Correction, I looked for offical explanation at Fisher Price, not Mattel
http://www.fisher-price.com/us/


22 posted on 12/13/2008 6:38:57 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Actually it was his radio show but I hadn’t seen a picture of the Trojan horse - I mean doll. Thanks for posting.


23 posted on 12/13/2008 6:41:58 AM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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To: Canedawg

Woa! I didn’t hear a “coo” or a “mama”. The people at Fisher Price are on crack or something.


24 posted on 12/13/2008 6:43:22 AM PST by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: AmericanMade1776
There's nothing to worry about, folks. There's a switch on the back of the doll.

Go

Just make sure it's switched to "good" and there shouldn't be any problems.

25 posted on 12/13/2008 6:48:02 AM PST by Oratam
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To: SampleMan
There is an easy way to see if it is an Islamic doll. Does it explode?

Or if the head falls off.

26 posted on 12/13/2008 6:53:29 AM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: Oratam

27 posted on 12/13/2008 6:54:57 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: SampleMan

Just what I was thinking! Recall all of them, add a bomb belt and wilder eyes and send them to the Middle East. They’ll sell like crazy.
SICK death cultists are working making our kids toys now...nice....when will it be enough?


28 posted on 12/13/2008 6:59:57 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Ahhhh...so this is how Disney created all those little communists that we used to call ‘little girls’! Wonder what they designed for us ‘little boys’ to replace GI Joe?


29 posted on 12/13/2008 7:13:09 AM PST by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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To: AmericanMade1776

The War Room’s Quinn & Rose have been covering this for months now, and they’ve caught Mattel in all kinds of lies and bravo sierra.

I think its high time for a boycott of Mattel and Fisher-Price. If its not toys covered in Chicom lead paint, its this kind of fifth-column Islamist crap.

All I gotta say is thank God for Lionel and MTH trains, hehehe.


30 posted on 12/13/2008 7:14:12 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: Canedawg

I imagine most people listen to all the doll says before they buy them and most people wouldn’t buy them for the 5 bucks after hearing that.


31 posted on 12/13/2008 7:24:38 AM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: AmericanMade1776

When I watched the video, this ad was running.
I'm almost tempted to go and find a 'date' and then ask her to convert for me...

...just for fun.

32 posted on 12/13/2008 7:28:46 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: AmericanMade1776
Back in 1989 the 'Barbie Liberation Organization' switched the sound chips on 300 dolls. This story about the doll saying 'Islam is the light' reminded me of that story from quite a while ago. I thought it was funny at the time. I still do!

But it shows that anything is possible. someone has to record those sound bytes. More than some sort of planned conspiracy, its probably just a matter of a religious employee taking advantage of being in the 'right place at the right time' to proselytize and promote their agenda.

Barbie Liberation Organization

People who were already upset at Barbie’s anorexic figure and her way of turning play into superficial consumerism couldn’t believe their ears when Barbie’s electric voice box giggled:

* “Math is hard!”
* “I love shopping!”
* “Will we ever have enough clothes?”

In 1989 the Barbie Liberation Organization was formed. Taking advantage of similarities in the voice hardware of Teen Talk Barbie and the Talking Duke G.I. Joe doll, er, “action figure,” they absconded with several hundred of each and performed a stereotype-change operation on the lot.

The surgery was no simple matter — circuit boards had to be trimmed, a capacitor moved, and a switch re-engineered. The press made it sound like an easy pop-and-switch operation, but this took some research and dedication.

The BLO returned the altered dolls to the toy store shelves, who then resold them to children who had to invent scenarios for Barbies who yelled “Vengeance is mine!” and G.I. Joes who daydreamed “Let’s plan our dream wedding!” Cleverly placed “call your local TV news” stickers on the back ensured that the media would have genuine recipients to interview as soon as the news broke.

One BLO member counted up the many benefits of their program: “The storekeepers make money twice, we stimulate the economy — the consumer gets a better product — and our message gets heard.”

33 posted on 12/13/2008 7:57:48 AM PST by txnuke (Its an Obama-nation to us all.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Initially I was blowing this off as just another paranoid interpretation, but the YouTube sites seem pretty clear that it is saying the Islam thing. I’d like to see the media do an article on who actually does the voice (synthesized or real), who makes the decision as to what to say (Mama seems to be a no-brainer), etc. Something DOES smell here, IMO, and it’s not just the power of suggestion.

[Sidebar] On a lighter note, I used to work at Wally World on the night shift and would occasionally get stuck with “zoning” (straightening out the mess) in the toy departmant. They had dolls that were activated when someone walked by and would giggle and say things. I went to management and asked for a Twilight Zone pay raise. They asked WTF? I told them the department was creepy - the dolls heads would turn and watch you as you walked by (not) but when you swung around to catch them they were always looking straight ahead. When you went back to work you could hear them giggle.

Well, we had a good laugh, but it spooked the Hell out of some of the Mexicans girls - some were pretty superstitious and I rattled one of them when I told her “they” were coming after her. When they had to work that department, they stayed by the Hot Wheels section.


34 posted on 12/13/2008 8:35:09 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Did you read the part where they bought the doll anyway and intend to give it to their granddaughter for Christmas and hoped their daughter would not mind? Weird.


35 posted on 12/13/2008 8:56:31 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: AmericanMade1776

We’ll know to really worry when Fisher-Price offers an accessory severed head to go with their new Cuddle-N-Coo doll or begins spouting phrases like “Allahu Akbar!”


36 posted on 12/13/2008 9:47:14 AM PST by E. Cartman (Bush's real legacy: The third-worldization of The United States.)
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To: Issaquahking; All; Spunky; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; ...

This and more was up in http://antimullah on October 11th - use link below to view/hear videos of dolls

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/10/who-paid-fisher-price-to-insert-pro.html


37 posted on 12/13/2008 1:41:44 PM PST by FARS (If time permits, visit http://antimullah.com after reading all of FR posts)
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To: Bon mots

hey I went onto the site and typed in “man seeking man” and then “woman seeking woman” and both times results came up!!!ha.


38 posted on 12/13/2008 1:50:03 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Obozo.....friend of dictators and wannabee revoluuuushionaries !)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Weird. I watched the youtube video. I heard..
'Paul Is Dead'
Must be an old Beatle fan working at the factory.
39 posted on 12/13/2008 1:50:42 PM PST by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: CRBDeuce

The lego terrorist;
http://brickarms.com/Toys/minifigs/bandit_black.aspx


40 posted on 12/13/2008 1:51:08 PM PST by potlatch
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To: Bon mots

41 posted on 12/13/2008 6:40:24 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

The best search on that site is “men seeking goats.”


42 posted on 12/13/2008 6:41:02 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Thanks. . .this is certainly a case where ‘silence, is NOT golden’.


43 posted on 12/13/2008 7:46:30 PM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~/)
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To: Oatka

haha..


44 posted on 12/14/2008 6:31:00 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

A couple of weeks ago, Rose from the Quinn and Rose in the Morning radio show, said she was in a Target in W PA and discovered the doll and what it said. She stayed there for a long time telling anyone who looked at the doll not to buy it and showing them what it said. Finally, she had to leave the store, so she made a big sign telling people about the doll.


45 posted on 12/14/2008 7:08:29 AM PST by penowa
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To: AmericanMade1776

Why can’t they just say “I love mama!” There are dogs who can. Check it out:

http://www.reflectionsofsouthbreeze.com/Pages/RealTalkingDogs.htm


46 posted on 12/14/2008 11:44:39 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Problem id'd, opinion keyed in...now, what will you DO about it?)
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


47 posted on 12/14/2008 9:07:19 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: AmericanMade1776

Info about the dolls here:

http://www.labelthatdoll.com/


48 posted on 12/14/2008 9:21:36 PM PST by Abigail Adams
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