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The following article gives several reasons as to why Muslims are upset -- it's offensive to Muslims and Christians, it creates "intolerance," it is "incendiary," and so forth. Yet, towards the end, we get the following solitary sentence which probably most sums up Muslim ire: "Islamic law generally opposes physical depictions of the prophet." Even though the game designers "offered a 'censored' option which blocks out the face of Muhammad," that's not good enough.
"Jesus vs. Mohammed? Video Game Upsets Islamic Group," from Fox News, April 28:
CAIRO —
An influential Islamic group branded an online video game depicting religious figures fighting each other as offensive to Muslims and Christians and successfully demanded Tuesday that it be taken offline.In the game "Faith Fighter," caricatures of Jesus, the Prophet Muhammad, Buddha, God and the Hindu god Ganesh fight each other against a backdrop of burning buildings.
God attacks with bolts of lighting and pillars of fire while the turbaned Muhammad can summon a burning black meteorite.
The Saudi-based Organization of the Islamic Conference, which represents most Muslim nations, said it should be removed from the Internet.
"The computer game was incendiary in its content and offensive to Muslims and Christians. ... The game would serve no other purpose than to incite intolerance," an OIC statement said.
Game designer Molleindustria told the Associated Press the game, which had been around for more than a year and played millions of times, was misunderstood, but had been removed.
"This was meant to be a game against intolerance and against the one-way Islamophobic satire of the Danish Muhammad cartoons," Molleindustria said in an e-mail message. "So if a respectable organization didn't understand the irony and the message, we failed."
Islamic law generally opposes physical depictions of the prophet.
When a Danish newspaper in 2005 printed 12 cartoons showing negative portrayals of Muhammad, Muslims around the world were enraged.
Deadly protests erupted from Morocco to Indonesia, with rioters torching Danish and other Western diplomatic missions. Some Muslim countries boycotted Danish products.
The style of the game, with characters jumping, kicking and knocking each other out, mimics the martial-arts arcade games popular in the 1980s and 1990s.[...]
However, the authors of the game did offer a "censored" option, which blocks out the face of Muhammad...
14 comments:
Pastorius,
I just heard about this over at the Joystick video game blog. I was wondering when you guys would get to it.
I had a feeling the gave will be pulled down by "offended disenfranchised Asian youths" so I downloaded it few days ago. :) Quite funny.
Here's another I like (not a game but a cartoon):
http://newhumanist.org.uk/1915
"The game"... doh
(I'm blaming Newcastle and their ale.)
Pastorius,
Andre79,
Its still up on New Grounds with a censored and uncensored version. Check it out here. I bet you guys would just love to beat up Mohammad?
I already played with all and won. I like the "Hava Nagila" theme when God is fighting, lol.
That's awesome. I hadn't actually played the game, so I didn't know about the Have Nagila theme.
Does God get carried around the room on a chair?
It's a sad little religion that can't handel a cartoon game. Or just a cartoon, form that matter.
It's a sad little religion that can't handel a cartoon game. Or just a cartoon, form that matter.
Pastorius,
That's a cool video. I liked watching the Buddha and Jesus beat up Mohammad! Vlad Tepes is right, we need to have the courage to laugh at their backwardness.
Yes, Vlad Tepes is correct. They have a very good blog there.
I predict that the video won't remain up for long at YouTube.
Somebody should capture it.
This game is hilarious and it's just like the muzzie's to cry and just like the west to appease.
Damien beat me to it, but here's another link to the game and here the funny PC watered down version..
At least with these guys appeasement tongue in cheek until the Allah lovers try to hunt em down to burn their houses down, feakin animals.
Since when has the Buddha been blue? I mistook him for Krishna. Like his style, though there's a lot to be said for Jesus' float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-bee, too. Isn't that Bach he's got for backup music?
Anybody got the God and Ganesha parts of the game?
OK, who the hell is Budai, why is Ganesha hopping on one foot like The Karate Kid, and so far God has lost 5 straight so how do I get to hear the Hava Nagila?
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