A doll some are claiming utters pro-Islam and even satanic messages has outraged parents in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania.

People insist they can hear Fisher-Price’s “Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo” mumbling “Islam is the light” and “Satan is king,” according to KJRH.com and MyFOXKC.com.

“There’s no markings on the box to indicate there’s anything Islamic about this doll,” said Gary Rofkahr of Owasso, Okla., who was at work when another man brought the toy in to show his colleagues.

Rofkahr said he found various versions of the doll at local Target and Wal-Mart stores, which have since pulled the toys from their shelves, reported KJRH.com.

Pennsylvania Targets have also reportedly stopped selling the doll, according to MyFOXKC.com.

Fisher-Price referred all calls to parent company Mattel, which didn’t immediately respond to FOXNews.com’s requests for comment.

A Target representative told KJRH.com the company has no plans to recall the doll nationwide.

Unwanted endorsements have dogged both candidates throughout the election season and could hurt their chances with undecided voters.

With the election just a week away, most of the country’s newspapers have turned in their endorsements, and the presidential candidates have been happy to receive them.

But you won’t find Barack Obama and John McCain bragging about all of their supporters.

Some of America’s most outspoken enemies have endorsed Obama, saying they hope the Democrat’s election will clear the way for them to cozy up to the United States.

McCain has had unwanted endorsements, too. The Republican has been embraced by some religious leaders who have made anti-Islamic and pro-Hitler statements, and he was praised last week by a Web site that supports Al Qaeda.

But do the opinions of terrorists matter to Americans?

“The first thing that this brings to mind is Ronald Reagan’s old statement. They endorse me, I don’t endorse them,” said Christopher C. Hull, adjunct professor of government at Georgetown University.

“I think that, in general, voters discount endorsements by people with which they don’t believe the candidate sympathizes,” he said. “But there is certainly the potential for some harm there. It depends on the degree to which there is concern about the candidate’s sympathies.”

And newspaper endorsements don’t carry the weight that they once did, Hull said, as circulation dwindles and readers look elsewhere for their news.

“Ideologues used to look to newspapers for their cues. Now there are thousands of cues out there from more partisan news sources, and that includes the blog community, it includes columnists and right-leaning or left-leaning television and radio hosts. There’s a lot more clutter in the endorsement game than there used to be,” he said.

Obama has been endorsed by the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Anchorage Daily News, the hometown paper of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

McCain has picked up endorsements from papers including the Columbus Dispatch, in the battleground state of Ohio, and the Dallas Morning News.

A paper’s bias influences how its endorsement is perceived by moderates, Hull said.

“For liberals, the New York Times is enormously influential. Not that there’s going to be anybody voting for John McCain in that city anyway. But for liberals across the country, the New York Times is enormously influential,” he said. “If you agree with where they’re coming from, you are more likely to listen to them than a paper that’s more neutral.”

Middle-of-the-road and independent voters are especially vulnerable to influence by extreme endorsements, Hull said.

Obama has been endorsed by groups and countries that could trouble moderates and independents who are afraid the candidate has had too many ties to radicals in his past.

“Certainly, if asked, a candidate would want to establish distance between himself and a group that has endorsed him if he disagrees with that organization or individual’s positions,” Hull said, “You don’t really want to mention in a speech if you’re Barack Obama that you’ve been endorsed by Hamas.”

The Obama campaign declined to comment for this story. The McCain campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Hamas has had an on-again, off-again preference for Obama, first endorsing the candidate in April when Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the Mideast terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign policy positions.

“We don’t mind — actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will [win] the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,” Yousef told conservative radio host John Batchelor and WorldNetDaily reporter Aaron Klein.

Obama adviser David Axelrod told the American Spectator the comparison to Kennedy was flattering, but that admiration of the former president was where the similarities between Obama and Hamas end.

Hamas yanked its support in June when Obama made a pro-Israel speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Reuters reported. But last week Yousef told Batchelor and Klein that Hamas would send Obama a congratulatory letter “the moment that he will win the election.”

Obama has also gotten a nod of approval from Iran.

The country’s parliament speaker said on Oct. 22 that Iran would prefer an Obama presidency. “We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational, even though we know American policy will not change that much,” Ali Larijani told Agence France-Presse.

Chosun Shinbo, a newspaper based in Japan that is a mouthpiece for the North Korean government, wrote in an editorial in June: “We will see a better relationship between the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula with Obama, who sternly criticizes Bush and who would meet the leader of Chosun without pre-conditions, than with the ‘Bush clone’ and scarecrow of the neocons McCain.”

In February, Investors Business Daily reported that while not endorsing Obama, Colombian guerilla terrorist organization FARC’s chieftain Raul Reyes has said he wants to see him in the White House. He told supporters that he met “two gringos” who said “the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support “Plan Colombia” nor will he sign the TLC (Free Trade Agreement).” Plan Colombia is the U.S. program funding the war on drugs and giving military support to the Colombian government.

Obama has even garnered the praises of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. “You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking,” Farrakhan said.

Fidel Castro has also jumped on the Obama bandwagon, saying Obama “without doubt is, from the social and human point, the most advanced candidate” running for the U.S. presidency, Reuters reported in May.

Both Obama and McCain have at one point been favored by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, who also told The Economist magazine that he would not take sides.

McCain, too, has received unsavory endorsements that could damage his reputation with moderate Democrats and independents, Hull said.

On Oct. 20, a group supporting Al Qaeda posted a message on a password-protected al Hesbah Web site that said McCain would be a better choice for president because he was more likely to continue the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Associated Press reported.

“This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier,” the AP reported. “Then, Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush.”

McCain welcomed the endorsement of Texas megachurch preacher John Hagee, but later rejected it after tapes surfaced of Hagee saying that God sent Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust to help the Jews reach Israel.

“Then God sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun, and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. … How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, ‘My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel,” Hagee said in a sermon posted on the Huffington Post.

Hagee has also called the Roman Catholic Church “the great whore” and a “false cult system,” and he said Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for homosexuality.

McCain accepted Hagee’s endorsement in April, but changed his tune a month later, when he also rejected the endorsement of Ohio preacher Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church, who has been a critic of Islam, calling the religion violent.

Hull said the best thing the candidates can do is distance themselves from groups or individuals who endorse them if they disagree with their positions on the issues.

“[Making] a statement of where the candidate stands with respect to Hamas or Chavez would be legitimate and an understandable response. Whether or not Hamas has endorsed Obama, Obama has a position towards Hamas and that position doesn’t change based on the endorsement,” Hull said. “The same is true of John McCain and the pastors.”

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Barack Obama shrugs off charges of socialism, but noted in his own memoir that he carefully chose Marxist professors as friends in college.

Dem presidential candidate Obama shrugs off charges of socialism, but noted in his own memoir that he carefully chose Marxist professors as friends in college

Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.

But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.

Obama’s affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

Obama’s interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called “the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union.”

After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama spent a year working for a consulting firm and then went to work for what he described as “a Ralph Nader offshoot” in Harlem.

“In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of …Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia,” Obama wrote in “Dreams,” which he published in 1995. “At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature.”

Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how “carefully” he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: “I am a Marxist.”

Also present at that meeting was Ayers’ wife, fellow terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, who once gave a speech extolling socialism, communism and “Marxism-Leninism.”

Obama has been widely criticized for choosing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an anti-American firebrand, as his pastor. Wright is a purveyor of black liberation theology, which analysts say is based in part on Marxist ideas.

Few political observers go so far as to accuse Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, of being a Marxist. But Republican John McCain has been accusing Obama of espousing socialism ever since the Democrat told an Ohio plumber named Joe earlier this month that he wanted to “spread the wealth around.”

Obama’s running mate, Biden, recently contradicted his boss, saying: “He is not spreading the wealth around.” The remark came as Biden was answering a question from a TV anchor who asked: “How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?”

“Are you joking? Is this a joke? Or is that a real question?” an incredulous Biden shot back. “It’s a ridiculous comparison.”

But the debate intensified Monday with the surfacing of a 2001 radio interview in which Obama lamented the Supreme Court’s inability to enact “redistribution of wealth” — a key tenet of socialism. On Tuesday, McCain said Obama aspires to become “Redistributionist-in-Chief.”

Obama has managed to cultivate the image of a political moderate in spite of his consistently liberal voting record. In 2006, he published a second memoir, “The Audacity of Hope,” that leaves little doubt about his adherence to the left.

“The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact,” Obama wrote in “Audacity.” “Much of what I absorbed from the sixties was filtered through my mother, who to the end of her life would proudly proclaim herself an unreconstructed liberal.”

National Journal magazine ranked Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate. The publication is far from conservative, employing such journalists as Linda Douglass, who resigned in May to become Obama’s traveling press secretary.

Bill Sammon is the Washington deputy managing editor for FOX News Channel.