Alright, you can read here if you want at GamePolitics, but basically the story is that a mom thought she heard a baby in the DS game Baby Pals say "Islam is the light." I have several numbered points to make about this bovine fecal matter:
1. "Islam is the light" isn't even a real phrase that anyone uses. A quick Google search for the phrase reveals that this story is apparently the only place anyone has thought to say it. I've never heard of this as a real phrase within the Muslim world.
2. It's freakin' baby talk. If you're thinking ahead of time, as you most certainly will be, you can think it sounds like "Islam is the light". That doesn't mean that some company got a baby to say that specifically, as they most certainly wouldn't have tried to coach the baby to say something specific at all.
3. This represents a dangerous and hurtful paranoia in America. "Islam" does not mean "evil" or "terrorist" or even "bad." I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, so whatever.
4. What a stupid evil plot. Yes, all of us doll and video game manufacturers (or perhaps just the sound effects company they licensed it from) are so evil, cunning, and Muslim, that we're going to make people think they're hearing baby talk, when in fact they're hearing praise of the Muslim religion! Then they'll... Be entirely unaffected until they complain about it and boycott the products. Bwa ha ha ha ha!
So, yeah, it's stupid, but you already knew that. For a slightly more entertaining version of the story, you can check out Penny Arcade as well.
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Funny thing is, it could just as easily be 'His Lamb is the Light', and I bet absolutely no-one would have a problem with a doll that said that...
HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT THEY ARE PROMOTING THE HEATHEN RELIGION ON OUR PURE SOIL THEY DESERVE TO DIE MATTEL AND THE PPL THAT MADE THIS FUCKIN DS GAME NEED TO GO TO HELL NOW JUST CUZ THEY ARE CORRUPTING OUR CHILDERN
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