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What she ended up with was a Mattel Fisher-Price Toys baby doll that says "Islam is the light."
Jennifer Calandra of Burton, 28, bought the doll for her 5-year-old and 7-year-old daughters shortly after Thanksgiving.
Calandra said she thought she was going crazy when she first heard the phrase about a week after buying the toy.
She exchanged the $20 doll Dec. 22 for a new one, also from Walmart,thinking it could be a malfunction in the soundtrack of coos and baby babble.
The second doll said the same thing.
Calandra is not the first to hear the Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo doll say, "Islam is the light."
Reports began popping up around the country this fall.
Some reports say the dolls also say, "Satan is king."
Moms Ask Mattel for Accountability, an educational effort geared toward preventing children from being invited to join Islam unknowingly, launched a campaign to remove the dolls from store shelves, according to MAMA's Web site.
"It's like a subliminal message," Calandra said. "It's not really something you want to hear coming from a doll. I had to tell my kids they wouldn't get a baby doll for Christmas because it said bad things."
Fisher-Price Toys, which makes the dolls in China, could not be reached for comment Tuesday and is closed until Monday, according to an automated message for spokeswoman Juliette Reashor.
Walmart corporate spokeswoman Anna Taylor said the dolls were being removed from the Beaufort store's shelves Tuesday.
Taylor said most stores still stock the doll because a product recall has not been issued.
