Creepy Talking Doll
Causes Fear, Insanity

Mike Paulus |

Anyone out there read the Dunn County News? Anyone out there who reads the Dunn County News remember this headline: "Menomonie Wal-Mart pulls alleged pro-Islam doll from shelf"? That somehow got by me. But I thank Jim Stingl from JSOnline for giving it more attention:

  • A woman in Menomonie, Wis., is the latest to complain that a talking doll selling at Wal-Mart is trying to recruit children to become little Muslims.
  • Lois Debee told her hometown Dunn County News last week that she thinks the doll says, "Islam is the light." To me it sounds more like, "Is mom in the lake," which probably proves I'm not nearly paranoid enough.
  • Debee marched right down to her local Wal-Mart to raise a ruckus over the doll with the ridiculously long name, Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo. She found out they had pulled the dolls off the shelves late last year when this controversy erupted, but they found their way back.

So wrong in so many ways. I wonder if Debee is aware of the millions of children around the world who are already Muslim. (As far as I know, a talking doll was never part of the equation.) Also, do people really think that a hunk of plastic can jibber-jabber a religious metaphor and magically convince a toddler to practice a religion? Because those kind of people are insane and need to get help. Anyway, have a listen.

Here's the original article. By the way, anyone out there remember this monkey business?