Online game removed after protest from Islamic group
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 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 countries, 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.
Italian designer Molleindustria said the game, which had been around for more than a year and had been 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 email message. “So if a respectable organization didn’t understand the irony and the message, we failed.”
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