|
| MAIN SITE |
 |
 COMPARATIVE RELIGION |
| INTERFAITH DIALOGUE FORUM |
| ABOUT |
|
| WORLD RELIGIONS |
|
| BUDDHISM |
| CHRISTIANITY |
| CONFUCIANISM |
| HINDUISM |
| ISLAM |
| JUDAISM |
| SHINTO |
| SIKHISM |
| TAOISM |
| ZOROASTRIANISM |
|
| MAIN SECTIONS |
|
| WORLD RELIGIONS |
ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY |
| ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY |
| GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
| SPECIAL FEATURE: |
|
| APOCRYPHA |
|
|
COMMUNITY FORUMS |
|
| BELIEF & SPIRITUALITY |
| ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS |
| EASTERN THOUGHT |
| ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY |
| ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY |
| COMPARATIVE STUDIES |
|
|
|
Interfaith: Home / Blog article: ‘Islam is the light’ says toy doll
October 14, 2008‘Islam is the light’ says toy doll
by David Masters
A toy doll that apparently says ‘Islam is the light’ has been criticised as inappropriate by American parents.
The Fisher Price doll with fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes, is meant to be a realistic baby that cries when it is hungry and asks for ‘Mama’.
However, some parents have raised concern that one of the doll’s phrases sounds like ‘Islam is the light’ and have written to Fisher Price to complain.
Toy makers Mattel, who own Fisher Price, deny the claim and say the doll’s only programmed phrase is ‘mama’.
The company did admit that because the sound is compressed and played through an inexpensive toy speaker, there may be some distortion in what is heard.
The doll is set to remain in shops across America until further notice.
Mattel has said that any parents with concerns should call their hotline.
Discuss this in the Interfaith forums
Story link: ‘Islam is the light’ says toy doll
Add to Bookmarks:
Related stories:
2 Responses to “‘Islam is the light’ says toy doll”
Leave a Reply
Previous: « Archbishop: Christians and Muslims must make peace
Next: Muslim convert admits guilt for Exeter bomb »
Visited 830 times, 1 so far today
I was laughing at people’s suggestibility when I read about this doll, until I listened to this recording in an AP report. I have to admit, it really does sound kind of like “Islam is the light!” Kind of like that cinnamon roll people were praying to a few years back—say what you will, the thing really did look kind of like Mother Theresa.
When I was young and first learning in middle school of the Salem Witch Trials, I often thought to myself “what gibbering fools the Puritans must have been to succumb to such ridiculous hysteria” and later, in high school, similarly wondered in horrible disbelief at a population that so readily subscribed to the Nazi ideal, a belief system that eventually lead to one of the most terrible chapters in modern history. I believe now that we know what sorts of people these were. Many of them call themselves Social Conservatives, and Christians, and Americans. They live next door to you. Their children sit next to yours and mine in school. But their defining purpose, unlike we who can accept and even celebrate the differences of our neighbors, is to propagate fear and animosity and prejudice of anyone even vaguely unlike themselves. They commit this tragic disservice in the name of their god or draped in the flag of their country, and it both saddens and confuses me that such individuals and I could be of the same species. I am embarrassed by it and them as an American, and angered by it as a human being. Control yourselves. Be adults for once in your sad misguided lives. Attempt some basic form of humanity. I don’t think it’s really that much to ask.