When Gary Rofkahr from Owasso heard there was a
baby doll on local store shelves that said, "Islam is the Light," he
didn't believe it.

He bought the Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo doll to see
for himself and he was shocked to hear the words, "Islam is the Light"
among other baby gibberish including "Mama."

"I have a 1-year-old
granddaughter," he said. "It makes me mad that someone is trying to
indoctrinate our children with an innocent toy."

He called Fisher Price to complain. He was told they were aware of the problem and would gladly refund his money.

"I told them I didn't want my money back, I wanted them to pull these
dolls off the shelf," he said. "They told me they can't pull an item
just because a customer requests it, they have to have corporate
direction. I told them I would get corporate direction and get back to
them. I told them I'm from a town of 30,000 people with 46 churches in
it and I know someone who attends each one. I'm going to everyone I
know to tell them about this and I'm going to call Target and Wal-Mart
and see if we can pull this doll off the shelves."
We've pulled it," said Mitzi Tatowicz, co-manager of the Owasso Wal-Mart.

She said Wal-Mart had heard about the doll and its recording several
days ago and pulled the doll from the local store. Apparently,
overnight the dolls had been put back on the shelves, but Tatowicz said
"We've voluntarily pulled them and believe they shouldn't be on our
shelves."

Local Target officials refused to comment on whether
the dolls were still on shelves and directed the Owasso Reporter to a
corporate media relations phone number that went directly to voicemail.
At around 11 a.m. Wednesday, an Owasso Reporter employee purchased one
of the dolls, which are made in China, at the Target in Smith Farm
Marketplace for $19.99.
An email reply from Fisher Price was this:
As a result of a recent news report regarding our Little Mommy Cuddle
'n Coo dolls saying an inappropriate phrase, we immediately undertook a
thorough investigation to fully understand the issue. A summary of our
findings include:
*The Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo dolls feature realistic baby sounds
including sweet cooing, giggling and baby babble with no real sentence
structure. *The only scripted word that the doll actually says is
"mama." There is a sound that may resemble something close to the word
"night, right, or light." All of the other sounds are baby sounds with
no real words or sentence structure.
*We have found that if told to listen for a particular phrase, you may hear something similar due to the power of suggestion.
*Actual sounds may be imprecise due to sound compression played through the very tiny inexpensive toy speakers from the doll.
As a result of these findings, we remain confident in the high quality
standards of our Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo dolls. If any consumer has
any questions or concerns regarding any Mattel toys, they may contact
our Mattel consumer relations center at 800/524-TOYS (8697), and we
will be happy to assist them. We take each call from our consumers very
seriously and do our best to help address their concerns.
UPDATE: At 2:19 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, Owasso Oklahoma Target had to call
police when a customer asked for the Little Mommy doll to be pulled
from their shelves and the store refused. The police report says,
"Subject came in last night and demanded for us to remove some
merchandise from the racks due to inappropriate language. The company
did not remove item."
See the video of the doll and decide for yourself at:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20156048&BRD=2754&PAG=461&dept_id=597380&rfi=6

Go to your local store, and listen for yourself