Posted on 12/29/2015 2:43:32 PM PST by hoagy62
An unexpected noise came out of a child's present this Christmas: an Islamic prayer.
Instead of whooshing and roaring expected out of a toy F-16 fighter jet bought on Amazon, the toy plays a prayer in Arabic, KING-TV reported.
The toy's manufacturer, WolVol, blamed its factory for the mistake, according to the report.
"It sounds like an Arabic chanting, which is pretty unusual," Bjorn Thorpe, the boy's uncle, told KING-TV. "I think we're kind of confused on how this would happen."
Nadeem Israr, president of the Islamic Society of Whatcom County, told King 5 the sound is a Muslim prayer spoken during pilgrimages to Mecca.
"It's very wrong. It's very, very wrong," he told KING-TV when asked about the toy.
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It’s really easy to grab the wrong file. Once upon a time, when the software I work on was still distributed by discs which we made on site, somebody forgot to clear the cache on the repro machine, so we wound up sending out a couple hundred copies Ice-T’s new album. Whoopsies happen, especially at 2AM.
Fun 9/11 toy plane! Push the button and hear the captain speak!
“This is your captain!”
“On the right you see Manhattan!”
“We have some planes!”
“Stay in your seats!”
“Allahu Akbar!”
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