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Toy plane makes sound of Islamic prayer
It was advertised as making realistic jet noises, but “we put the batteries in and didn’t get what we expected”, Thorpe tells KING 5. It’s just kind of not the right situation to have that on a children’s toy’.
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“That’s very, very wrong”, Nadeem Israr, president of the Islamic Society of Whatcom County in Washington, told local television station KING, adding that the mix-up likely happened at the factory where the plane was produced. It’s super loud and the one we bought didn’t even play jet sounds.
– Plane has freaky middle Eastern chanting no jet noises. “It sounds like an Arabic chanting, which is pretty unusual”, Thorpe says. It wasn’t until this holiday season that customers started complaining that the toy planes they’d received (some as Christmas gifts) were playing Islamic prayers instead.
The Amazon seller blamed the manufacturer for the mishap, saying that there must have been a bad batch of toys. Plays a very disturbing middle eastern song or chant or prayer…
When turned on the toy F-16 plays the prayer that is performed by Muslims during the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. It pointed to its almost four-star rating on Amazon, where the family bought the toy.
Thorpe told the station that while he respected religious differences, he said the chanting was inappropriate for use in an airplane.
Thorpe expects Amazon to refund their buy, so they can get his nephew his new Christmas present.
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Amazon was asked to comment on this toy plane incident, but has declined to do so.