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October 13, 2008 | 3:16 pm

Fisher-Price doll promotes Islam?

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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See that Aryan face? That’s the Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n’ Coo. And believe it or not, that doll is a Muslim emissary.

OK, I don’t believe it. I’m not sure what this doll actually is saying, but I doubt it’s “Islam is the light.” Mattel, which owns dollmaker Fisher-Price, claims the baby just coos and says mama; I don’t hear that either. But, naturally, controversy has followed:

Some shops in the US have removed the doll from shelves after complaints from customers, according to reports. It is available in Britain for £19.99.

A spokesman for Fisher-Price insisted that the doll was not pushing pro-Islamic messages, adding that the sound some parents were hearing was caused by an accidental distortion of the doll’s soundtrack.

“The Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls feature realistic baby sounds including cooing, giggling, and baby babble with no real sentence structure,” a spokesman said.

“The only scripted word the doll says is ‘mama’. There is a sound that may resemble something close to the word ‘night’, ‘right’, or ‘light’.

“Because the original soundtrack is compressed into a file that can be played through an inexpensive toy speaker, actual sounds may be imprecise or distorted.”

Earlier, Mattel released a statement saying that “the power of suggestion” was the reason why parents were mis-hearing the doll.

“It’s not what you would expect out of a sweet little doll,” said Martina Hollermann of Ramsey, Minnesota, who bought the toy for her children. “Everyone was kind of creeped out.”

A video report from the AP is after the jump:

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I walked past the doll in a Target store and heard “Islam is the Light” quite clearly.  In these times, we are foolish to disbelieve without taking the simple step of checking it out personally.  Whether this is evidence or not, we are being attacked from within by adherents of this bloodthirsty religion, and allowing political correctness to embarrass us out of recognizing it will be fatal to our democracy.

Comment by Karen Woods on 10/14/08 at 7:34 am

The phrase is very clear. At the very least it is pretty clear. I heard an MP3 of the original recording supplied by Fisher Price and it is does not say ‘Mamma’. The “Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo” doll is not supposed to say anything. I don’t hear ‘satan is king’ though.

The best place to gauge a reaction is not from all of us paranoid haters but the first comments by ALAMINUK in a place like this. He’s kvelling and shepping nachas going on about the glorious Koran and Allah etc.
I’d love to know how the sales of this doll are doing in Detroit and Jersey City.

Check out youtube clips of interviews and news reports on “who wants to die?” Elmo, “Beat up Elmo” Elmo (Fisher Price), “Kill James” Elmo (Fisher Price)

Comment by Ben Plonie on 10/16/08 at 11:46 am

oh, it says islam is the light alright. I wouldn’t have believed it, but I heard it at target last night! I think if you want a doll to say ialamic phrases, then sell them in a store that caters to that kind of thing. Or better yet sell them in your own country!

Comment by connie on 10/19/08 at 11:54 am

It absolutely says, “Islam is the light.”  I could not believe it.  I was at Target TODAY in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida and saw and heard it with my own eyes and ears.  In fact, I recorded it with my camera!  Fisher Price, this is very disturbing.  There is no mistaking it…the baby coos, gurgles, ‘mama’, and then “Islam is the light”.  I don’t understand this.  But I’m certainly not done talking about it.  Believe it.  If I was just reading about this online I would be skeptical.  But this is true.

Comment by Jeanne Greenwald on 11/01/08 at 12:06 am

Please believe me when I say the doll says
“Islam is the light”. I know this because I was flabergasted to find that I own two of them. I am horrified that my twin daughters have been hearing this every time they play with thier dolls. I for one will not buy another Fisher Price or Mattel toy until they own up to thier mistake.

Comment by Amy on 12/10/08 at 2:03 am

No offense, Amy, but your ear-witness testimony is suspect, since you knew what to listen for. 

A true scientific test—playing the recording to someone who had no idea if the doll said anything special, and THEN asking what they heard, is the only valid scientific way to prove/disprove anything.

People are predisposed to find what they are looking for, and you, presumably a human, are no different.

We’re predisposed, as pattern-seeking mammals, to find “causes” for things we can’t explain.This is why we’re all so riveted by stories of any kind - movies, TV shows, novels, theater. These big brains of ours love explication and resolution.

It think it also explains why most of us are predisposed to believe in the supernatural. It’s likely that there is/was a evolutionary advantage to making up answers and inventing rituals that help us blunt or deny the reality and finality of death.

Comment by The Web Guy on 12/10/08 at 2:29 am

Real parents of real children tasked with the real job of real education and socialization don’t have the time or patience to conduct a scientific experiment to decide whether to include something in the experience of their little children. It is clearly either a case of sabotage or an unfortunate case of confusion. I hear it, most people hear it, you have not said you don’t hear it.

As far as predisposition, you are saying that people emply their imagination iomproperly. But you could make the equal and opposite case that the doll definitely does say ‘Islam is the light’, and that you and most people are predisposed to poo-poo that possibility sonce it would be absurd for Fisher-Price to manufacture and distribute such a doll. You might say “it only sounds like that but it can’t possibly actually say that”. In the same way did the government fail to stop 9/11 and deal with Hurricane Katrina, and did Sec’ty Rumsfeld tell the 9/11 Commission that government suffered from ‘a failure of the imagination”. I don’t suppose it would make a difference to you that all of religious belief is based upon the acknowledgement of the supernatural as real.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 12/10/08 at 2:44 am

I’m just saying a modern, educated, rational person learns to evaluate ‘evidence,’ and knows the difference between suspicion, evidence and proof.

“Man see what he wants to see and disregards the rest,” said Paul Simon.

Religious belief is based on faith; scientific proof has no place in faith.

See Gould’s Nonoverlapping Magisteria for more.

Comment by The Web Guy on 12/10/08 at 3:25 am

The title of your post sounds really tolerably as compared to others I’ve met online: “Fisher Doll Reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda”. Frankly speaking, I don’t exactly know what it’s supposed to be saying, but it definitely isn’t saying “Islam is the light.” The phrase definitely ends with a strong K sound. Listen to it again. It’s a K at the end. Mostly likely it is saying something “is alike”. Don’t you think so?

Comment by dildo on 11/16/09 at 6:14 am

No. Listen to the original MP3 I linked to above. That does not suffer from the “Because the original soundtrack is compressed into a file that can be played through an inexpensive toy speaker, actual sounds may be imprecise or distorted” phenomenon.

Sort of like the issue of “modern, educated, rational person learns to evaluate ‘evidence,’ and knows the difference between suspicion, evidence and proof”. Well, the President and his enablers and lackeys also presumably know the difference, and have at this time cautioned against concluding that a person who walked around in robes waving guns on a military base after calmly giving away his food that morning so it wouldn’t be wasted, and yelled ‘God is great!’ in Arabic and then fired 100 shots at his army buddies is not a terrorist and especially not an Islamic terrorist.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/16/09 at 10:49 pm

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