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New Jersey: Muslim author creates children’s book and plush toy to fight “Islamophobia”

Aug 2, 2017 2:15 pm By Robert Spencer

Danny Shakoj seems like a friendly fellow. All his good intentions to deter “Islamophobia” by means of this affable Imam Adam, however, are unfortunately doomed to fail. If anyone is suspicious of Islam, it is not because there are no children’s books featuring happy imams going about doing good deeds (like what imam in real life?). It is because of Muslims such as Osama bin Laden, Nidal Malik Hasan, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and so very many other Islamic jihadists. People who are aware that there is a problem with violence incited by the Qur’an and Sunnah are not going to be deterred from that awareness by the appearance of a plush toy.

Part of the problem here is that it’s unclear what is meant by “Islamophobia.” If Jessica Presinzano and Danny Shakoj mean vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, when they genuinely occur and aren’t faked, those are never justified, but the creeps and louts who perpetrate them are unlikely to be turned away from their hatred by Imam Adam. If, on the other hand, Presinzano and Shakoj mean honest analysis of how jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and hatred, the creation of yet another fictional nice Muslim is not going to change any uncomfortable truths.

“Haledon man creates book, plush toy to teach kids about Islam,” by Jessica Presinzano, NorthJersey.com, July 31, 2017:

HALEDON – With the coming Hajj season, author Danny Shakoj wants to introduce families to Imam Adam.

“Everywhere, you see different faith books and toys. There’s nothing out there for Islam,” said the book’s author, Shakoj, of Haledon.

Earlier this year he debuted his plush toy and book set to remedy the lack of products as well as help deter Islamophobia.

“Adventures of Imam Adam” was influenced by figurine-and-book combinations “Elf on the Shelf” and “Mensch on a Bench,” which respectively correspond to Christmas and Hanukkah.

The story follows Imam Adam, who packs his backpack to perform Hajj — a faith-renewing pilgrimage and one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith….

Included in the set is the hardcover book and a 12-inch plush figurine of Imam Adam dressed for adventure in jeans, red basketball shoes and a removable backpack with a prayer mat inside.

On his journey, the smiling imam breaks fast with friends, pauses for prayer and shares with those in need, highlighting each of the other four pillars of Islam— faith, prayer, charity and fasting….

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  1. Lucia Bartoli says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 2:25 pm

    Don’t buy it as it might blow up in an “infidel” child’s hands

    • p says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 10:28 am

      I would send a rape kit, and directions to cut the clit off and sew up a vagina. Comes with mandatory burkha

  2. Jaladhi says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    The bearded doll is to scare the infidel children! Who will be foolish enough to buy this disgusting “plush toy” for his children? This imam ain’t no Mickey Mouse!!

    • miriamrove says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 3:21 pm

      Who will be foolish enough to buy this…

      Plenty of PC liberal retards around northern NJ where I live will be happy to buy into this BS. m

      • Keys says

        Aug 2, 2017 at 5:13 pm

        Yep, and every public library and lots of school libraries will have to have one. Maybe CAIR will donate them, and include programs and assemblies for the kaffir kids. How about a “Kaffir Kid” t-shirt ?

        • Keys says

          Aug 2, 2017 at 5:55 pm

          Should be kafir.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 2, 2017 at 7:32 pm

        This does not seem to have been published by any sort of even small mainstream children’s publisher, and appears only to be available here at the Siraj Store:

        https://www.siraj.co/collections/kids

        Hopefully few Infidel kids will ever see this.

    • p says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 10:29 am

      look for the knife, and be prepared to survive a beating

    • p says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 10:30 am

      how do they make it smell like a goat?

  3. Davegreybeard says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 2:56 pm

    The “pressure cooker” for the backpack is a “must have” accessory for this charming and educational toy!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 3:41 pm

      Grimly hilarious, Dave.

      • p says

        Aug 3, 2017 at 10:31 am

        and the pipe bomb for the plane.

  4. Ren says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 3:03 pm

    A Muhammad’s doll… how cute! Muhammad as a dildo would be even better!

    • manat bint allaha says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 6:15 pm

      can’t agree more.
      after all, there is a lil’ brown allah in every man’s rectum.

      • Ren says

        Aug 2, 2017 at 8:29 pm

        Please let me rectify your statement.
        “…there is a lil’ brown allah in every man’s rectum”
        becomes
        “…there is a lil’ brown allah in every muslim’s rectum”.
        That’s a pain in the ass.

  5. Lydia says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 3:06 pm

    Never believe a lie, no matter how soft, furry, and fluffy the packaging it comes in.

  6. gravenimage says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 4:19 pm

    New Jersey: Muslim author creates children’s book and plush toy to fight “Islamophobia”
    ……………….

    Does Imam Adam come with a cute lil’ suicide belt, as well?

    • Terry says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 4:54 pm

      Graven,

      Not only is a suicide vest needed, but also roadside bombs–if it is to truly represent Islam at its finest.

      Personally, I prefer suicide bombs- but only detonated in the presence of other Muslims, and Muslim sympathizers.

      • p says

        Aug 3, 2017 at 10:39 am

        pull the string it says allu ack-bar

    • Westman says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 6:35 pm

      I’m particularly impressed by the blue-eyed “asian” doll. That should make little Muslimas desire to marry a blue-eyed boy when they grow up. Why do I get the feeling that no Muslim families will give this doll to their daughters? Or, allow those daughters, who stray, to marry a blue-eyed unbeliever?

      The doll is pure propaganda aimed at unbelievers. Invest at your own risk.

      • Joe says

        Aug 3, 2017 at 4:55 am

        It is not well done. “The Adventures of” sounds like it is from Pee-wee Herman. “Elf on a Shelf” is certainly not at risk.

  7. Kris T says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 4:22 pm

    Will they create an Imam Eve and….wait…hold on….women can’t be Imams due to the hatred for women in Islam…anyway, will they create an Eve so that Adam can beat her to help demonstrate the proper way to implement Qur’an 4:34?

    • Westman says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 6:41 pm

      Imam Adam drives the car, Eve rides as an inferior passenger. The car will have a removable floor shift that doubles as a beating rod. When Adam becomes angry with some Indian driver, he displaces his anger on Eve and he receives satisfaction in his breast.

  8. Kris T says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 4:24 pm

    As part of his Adventures, does “Adam” heroically free the Yazidi sex slaves that ISIS has taken per Mohammad’s example? (Mohammad took sex slaves.)

  9. manat bint allaha says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 6:13 pm

    a martyr mouse stuffed toy would be more to the point.
    also, a couple of toys to teach kids the finer points of taharrush.

  10. Sam says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 6:30 pm

    What a poor soul. He is either a totally clueless idiot or evil Jihadi. Anyone who knows a little about Islam can not be anything else.

  11. Andy says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 6:33 pm

    Danny Shakoj can STUFF his MOSLEM doll (Imam Adam) up his ARSE where the sun don’t shine!!! Tell him to go F… Himself!

  12. John W. says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 7:50 pm

    And would any non muslim really buy this?

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 8:11 pm

      It seems to be mostly aimed at Muslims.

    • Westman says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 12:42 am

      What Muslim would buy this blue-eyed doll for his daughter? What are the ramifications for a Muslim daughter that only wants to a marry a blue-eyed man?

      • terry says

        Aug 3, 2017 at 8:05 pm

        Weren’t the Russian born Boston marathon bombers blue eyed? I think, that, I vaguely recalled, form Rolling Stone made him into a rock star, there was a reference to his bright blue eyes. But, i could be mistaken.

        Just think-if all of the Muslims in the US would move to Chechnya .

        The US would be safer

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 3, 2017 at 8:11 pm

          Yup. There are definitely blue-eyed Muslims. They are just as savage as all the rest, though.

  13. Cthulhu says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 8:03 pm

    Does it come with an another doll in an orange jumpsuit and with detachable head?

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 8:13 pm

      Good question…

  14. Wellington says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 8:16 pm

    “Islamophobia” is a crock of shit of course. It is seriously put forward by people who should never be taken seriously. And there are numerous ways of shooting down this particular stupidity. Numerous passages from the Koran is one. The study of Mohammed’s character is another. Close to the top of this infamous list here is that just since 9/11 there have been over 31,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide.

    “Islamophobia” is such a farce. But then, how fitting, since so is Islam.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 8:52 pm

      Agree with Wellington: ‘Islamophobia is a farce’ … because …

      THIS IS GASLIGHTING. Gaslighting is to try to convince a victim of abuse to accept the abuse and consider him/herself as MENTALLY ILL.

      The ‘Islamophobia’ smear campaign is a PERFECT, TEXTBOOK example of GASLIGHTING.

  15. mortimer says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    Danny Shakoj doesn’t condemn JIHAD per se… he condemns the DIRTY KAFIRS for actually OBJECTING to be MURDERED BY MUSLIMS LIKE RATS.

    Danny Shakoj doesn’t understand that COMPLAINING ABOUT JIHAD from the perspective of the KAFIR is merely expressing our desire to GO ON BREATHING.

    Danny Shakoj expresses the TOTALITARIAN ARROGANCE of Islam towards the DIRTY KUFAAR.

    The KUFAAR do not deserve to live and they may not even PROTEST WHEN MUSLIM KILL THEM LIKE FLIES.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 8:48 pm

      Yes–under Islam the ‘filthy Infidels’ are not even supposed to complain about Muslims slaughtering them.

      • patriotliz says

        Aug 3, 2017 at 7:09 am

        Mortimer and Gravenimage,

        There you go “triggering” me to show you this video representative of the dumb-dumb-Dhimmis on the Left:

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 3, 2017 at 8:16 pm

          Yes–I’ve seen this animation. Grimly, it is only a slight exaggeration…

  16. mortimer says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 8:50 pm

    GASLIGHTING IS A DELIBERATE PART OF JIHAD

    Through the principle of ‘hijra’ (Muslim immigration), the first Muslims to enter a territory lay a red herring of ‘peaceful Islam’. They constitute a Trojan horse. The Kafir or Kufaar community gets the false sense that the early immigrants are not a threat, at least not until the Muslim community has gained strength of numbers…at which point, Muslims aggressively begin to demand Sharia law against the will of the kafir victims of Islamic supremacism. This creeping Islamic persecution of the kafir host culture begins and continues until Islam becomes the supreme and unanswerable political ideology in the territory. When Islam becomes official, the persecution of non-Muslims goes into full gear to humiliate and inconvenience them to the extent that they will convert to Islam in order to avoid Islam’s official policy of persecution. Jihad is warfare against disbelievers. Deception is a huge part of jihad.

    Allah is the greatest deceiver – “Allahu khayru al-makireena” – K. 3:54; cf. 8:30

    THIS IS GASLIGHTING. WE HAVE OBSERVED DANNY SHAKOJ.

    • tim gallagher says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 7:35 pm

      Mortimer, great summary of how the whole rotten process works. I’ve sometimes thought back to thirty or more years back when, say, Germany and other European countries imported Turkish workers and it seemed peaceful enough. But, of course, when the Muslims numbers were small, they weren’t going to cause any trouble. Had to wait to build up their numbers and then start calling for Sharia barbarism and such garbage and challenging our western way of life. We need to stop letting Muslims in and opposing their attempts to impose any of their garbage on us. It has been the same story out here in Australia over the past thirty years or so. Endless trouble and getting worse as Muslim numbers are allowed to increase. And some people are still buying the “peaceful Islam” nonsense. Living in fantasy land.

  17. Arthur says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    The doll comes with an ethernet cable protruding from one sleeve. When you’re tired of playing with friendly Imam Adam, plug him into your internet router and by the next morning he will transform in to Jihadi Jahaad: the face will be covered and the backpack becomes a bomb! He’s radicalized by the internet!

  18. Georg says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 11:09 pm

    A better gift for a kid would be an IS action figure and a magnifying glass.

  19. Robert_k says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 2:23 am

    Still waiting for the Hitler Jugen Hans and Hitler MaIden Magda.

  20. Robert_k says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 2:28 am

    Still waiting for Hitler Jugen Hans and Hitler Maiden Magda dolls.

    • patriotliz says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 7:04 am

      Robert K,
      Well, there are at least Hitler action figures.
      http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/OddPics/Hitler.html

      Just add “Imam Adam” to your collection of other action figures–like Jihadi Joe chopping off heads, Jihadi Jane w/ a suicide bomb hidden under her burka. Killing infidels is being a good Muslim.

      • Chris Malan says

        Aug 3, 2017 at 8:14 am

        Those Hitler dolls go back to 2001. Seems they didn’t make it.

  21. Judy G. says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 3:15 am

    Does it come with its own goat and child bride

  22. FYI says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 6:38 am

    They already have a Barbie doll with a hijab called Fulla (named after a Jasmine flower)
    What,I wonder is her surname?

    Fulla…Taqqiya,Muruna,Shaitan,Semtex,Sheeth,Evil?

    I have seen picture books for kids showing the life of Jesus but it must be difficult for muslims to tell their kids about their mass-murdering,anti-semitic,anti-Christian,brutal and violent “prophet” muhammed(pbuh..Purveyor of Butchery and Unholy Horror)

    A picture book for muslim kids about the life of Mo:that would…. end up having to be X-rated wouldn’t it?

    But imagine if you will, a series of picture books for little muslim children about the most perfect man who ever lived,Mohammed….

    Mo and Aisha’s first date(she,6 years old,Mo…. a middle aged man!!)

    Mo and the Jews

    Mo and his sex slave women

    Mo the slave trader (and the black slaves he kept)…that should go down well with African-American members of the Muslim Brotherhood..and it’s so sadly True!
    {sahih muslim 3901}

    Mo and the camel urine incident

    Mo’s money

    Mo Mo Mo,
    {the adventures of the most perfect man that ever lived}

    The life of Brian Muhammed(the hilarious story of an idiot convert to islam)soon to be a musical with a cast of millions..of victims…

    I’m sure they have a Jihad Joe doll too:it probably comes with IEDs,a suicide vest and spare body parts to represent all the innocent infidels butchered by the devout followers of Mo’s{sarc on} completely non-violent religion of peace.

  23. Chris Malan says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 8:10 am

    I’ve wondered how long before they come with toys for little Khalid. A martyr’s outfit – a little suicide vest which Khalid can don before going to the shopping center. Or a plastic sword and a kafir doll, maybe even a Jewish doll if Khalid was a good boy, which Khalid can behead over and over. Instead of a chemistry set, a little bomb making kit. The possibilities are endless. Of course, all these toys will be ‘educational.’

  24. Holo says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 8:55 am

    The ratiional way to fight Islamophobia is for Muslims to stop their barbarous murders of innocents!

  25. Mark says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 9:58 am

    Is there one for Buddhist phobia?

  26. Eyes Open says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 10:05 am

    When’s the jihad John doll coming out

  27. tim gallagher says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 7:19 pm

    I was thinking the imams might order a fatwa against this guy for making a smiling type of imam. The real imams always look threatening and murderous and evil like Khomeini used to look. So I think they might think this idiotic smiley imam is an insult to their dignity as nasty murderous, scary scumbags. After all, Islam is all about terrorising and scaring people. It is the least cute and cuddly religion in the history of the world. Anyone who is fooled by this smiling imam doll is brain-dead anyway.

  28. Schrödinger says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 3:34 pm

    Little children, time to learn your A B C’s of Islam, of being good little slaves of Allah:

    A is for allah

    B is for beheading

    C is a letter to follow C

    D is for Dar al islam as well as Dar al Harb

    H is for Hijra and for Halal, but also Haram

    I is for islam as well as for islamophobia (even though there’s no such thing)

    J is for Jihad

    K is for Kuffar

    M is for muhammad, peace be upon him

    Q is for Qital, meaning armed fighting in the way of allah, islam’s never ending Holy War against the Kuffar, the apostate, the hypocrites and each other

    S is for Shahada, Salat, Sunni and Shia, and Shirk and the list goes on

    T is for Takbir and Takfir — do be a Takbiri, not a Takfiri — as well as Taqiyya

    Z is for Zakat

    Just remember “J” is the most important letter in your alphabet, and never forget the penalty for apostasy from Islam is death. Goodnight little children.

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