Dolls and Their Evil

An insane mother from Indiana recently caused a minor ruckus in the USA over Fisher-Price's Cuddle & Coo baby doll (pictured left), which she claimed said "Islam is the light". Tellingly she also claimed a DS game, Baby Pals, said the same thing to her daughter, and quickly dispatched both the offending toys from her righteous, Christian house. In her house, she would later claim, toys can either proclaim that Jesus is the saviour or shut the hell up.

Fox jumped on the story with their characteristic unthinking gleeful hatred, and quickly printed a story titled "Doll pulled from shelves for spouting hate". They've pulled the article now, realising how incredibly retarded it is to call a doll on "spouting hate" for cooing garbled babblings that could be misconstrued by unfit mothers as "Islam is the light". 

What's sad (but unsurprising) about this whole affair is that it's actually controversial if a baby is cooing "Islam is the light", when it obviously wouldn't be controversial if the baby started saying "I love baby Jesus". Americans (and bigots around the world) will be at pains to tell you that they don't hate Islam, but ultimately they still view it as unfortunate, and possibly problematic that someone is Muslim, though they grudgingly accept his or her right to be.

A similar conception colours the arguments made against gay adoption that run along the lines of "There's absolutely nothing wrong with being gay, but we're concerned that gay parents adopting a child could turn it gay. Not that there's anything wrong with being gay."

If you want to see a video of the doll in question definitely not saying "Islam is the light", go here. (link)