The reason for the delay is that LittleBigPlanet will have to have part of its soundtrack changed, as it could possibly be an offence to Muslims. Sony released a statement that it had been brought to its attention that a track on the background music contained two expressions which can be found in Qur’an.Sony said that they are now rectifying the situation; they also offered an apology for any offence that it might have caused. LittleBigPlanet will now be released on October 27, a week late. The worldwide release will now be on November 14. – from this news article
Any language will contain phrases that are inadvertently echoed in other languages, or could be detected in the nonsense-patter of a comic (say, Sid Caesar, pretending to speak French or German or Italian in one of those old "Show of Shows" skits from the 1950s). Even what is meant to be background gobbledygook, even static, if listened to by someone, may in fact seem to be uttering a phrase to which he takes offense.
This is the classic behavior of paranoid schizophrenics, the kind who "hear" themselves being talked about -- talked about on every radio and television show, their names being slyly conveyed, and only the schizophrenic himself can actually understand that it is he they are talking about, and "they" are doing it -- don't you see? can't you hear it? -- all day long, and day in, day out.
Muslims who take offense, and apparently some do, at what they imagine they are hearing -- a deliberate echo or repeat of some Qur'anic verse -- are akin to those schizophrenics. They are, essentially, mad, or would be seen as such, were they individuals in the Western world. Should we regard their craziness, and eagerness to find what is a figment of their aural imagination, as anything more than a collective version of what the individual schizophrenic suffers from? Should Sony, or any other company or country, change its plans, give in, in an attempt to be solicitous of the sensitivities of those who in their own "civilization" may not be, but in ours most definitely are, simply mad?
Won't we, by collaborating in this madness, start to go slightly off the rails ourselves? Sony has made a regrettable decision, and perhaps more than a few Infidels will make their displeasure known at this idiotic yielding to an idiotic complaint.
Listen closely, and see if you can detect phrases from the Arabic of the Qur’an in this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaemNKql-TI
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxBbXZuAe0A
or this:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LgQl9WQwGak
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhMq8_s64Y4&feature=user
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLfgT2CFC4Y
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHYC6SYI-9Q
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJtOWKmvHxM
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EihQHmFcdQ
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2VSR_4xFp0
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMXhiTgSzIE
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFOPMRNCoSo
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjXYwDNhMG8&feature=related
I’m sure some Muslims by now are brimming with fury, for god knows how many “phrases from the Qur’an” they’ve detected. And that’s just a non-devil's dozen, in eight different languages. But there are thousands of languages, and there are millions of songs. Just think how many words are being spoken every day, in those thousands of languages, that include a phrase that sounds exactly like something in the Qur’an. Think of what is being hummed in Evenki, or clicked in Xhosa, and the tiniest bits of the Qur'an that might, just might, be inadvertently pronounced.
My god, where does it end for those listening, listening, listening, for the phrase, in an Infidel song, that dares to sound like a sound-bite from the Qur'an?
If one wishes to help Muslims root out unacceptable instances of blasphemy, one should go to Muslim websites, post a YouTube song (the more obscure the language in which the song is sung, the better) and sweetly explain that you think -- you're not sure but you think -- that there are some echoes of Sura 9, or Sura 12, or Sura 23 -- and you'd like fellow Muslims to listen to it, five or ten or five hundred times, to see if they can confirm your suspicion.
Repeat, with a thousand other songs, or speeches, or anything at all, ad libitum. What a splendid way for Muslims to spend their time. Indeed, why should not a billion Muslims, or at least tens of millions, spend their time listening to Infidel songs, hearing Infidel speeches, in order to catch on the wing a telling phrase that surely, surely, is an "exact" duplication of a Qur'anic phrase? And then all hell can break loose, which is always the point or end-point. At the very least, we might thereby extract from the world's Muslims the same number of utterly wasted man-hours that they, by their bombs and plots to bomb planes in midair, have caused the entire Infidel world, as our waiting-time for every flight has gone up, as a consequence, by an hour or two -- and that means billions of Infidel man-hours wasted. A little tit for tat is called for.
Use your imagination.
Where does it end?
Hugh, I have another suggestion. Sometimes when songs are played in reverse one can detect all sorts of things. Maybe there are all sorts of blasphemous utterances offensive to Muslims to be found in backmasking on tapes and CDs.
Where does it end, indeed?
Where does it end?
Furthermore, we should encourage the development of a whole new branch of mathematics dedicated to developing mathematical formulae to detect in the third, fifth, twenty-second, umpteenth or whatever letter of song lyrics, transcripts of screenplays, broadway musicals and Obama speeches. These anagrams are then multiplied and divided by the square root of pi to produce some blasphemous phrases offensive to the perpetually offended Muslim world. Then, those idiots in Sweden who award the Nobel Prize can add Muslim mathematicians to their long list of other politically correct, multiculty recipients contributing to the advancement of peace.
You don't know how scary this is until you meet and talk with someone who orders his world with this type of paranoia. When will the APA add to the DSM of mental disorders ROPD or Religion of Paranoia Disorder.
The shizophrenic with the classical symptoms described would be a 'paranoid'. Paranoids are the most dangerous of the schizophrenic group.
All paranoids are suspicious, but not all paranoids are attackers...The attackers have a common philosophy, 'you're out to 'get' them, so they will 'get' you first'...Mohammadans perceive that the west is 'out to get them'...So...
From article: Muslims who take offense, and apparently some do, at what they imagine they are hearing -- a deliberate echo or repeat of some Qur'anic verse -- are akin to those schizophrenics.
Islam creates psychotic episodes in believers to the point of life style dominance (Sharia).
Applied paranoia...like painted on. Apostates are able to wash it off and recover from its toxic effects...
Excellent article, Hugh. I especially like this bit:
I know exactly what you mean
The person who wrote the song is a muslim, and it is actually sung in arabic, they're not imagining it. (Not to say that they aren't paranoid in other ways.)
Oh, by "it is actually sung in arabic", I mean the two "offensive" lines from the qur'an.
Mwahahaahaaa, the terrorist campaign is working a treat...
Amazing how quick the Japanese are to cave in.
Wonder how big the market is for 'game-boy' in Islamic countries, scary stuff!
99.99% of the muslim where not offend by the song so the game was release after being chech out by top mangent. No bussien want to insult than large group of buyer. I buy and play computer games so it make me than possible buyer.
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finally Exposed !!!!