Apparently the two Koranic expressions uttered in the "LittleBigPlanet" game are "Every soul shall have the taste of death" and "All that is on earth will perish." An update on this story.
"LittleBigPlanet delayed," by Jason Hill for the Age, October 20:
One of the biggest releases of the year has been delayed because music lyrics in a background song could have caused offense to Muslim players.Sony is now hastily recalling all copies of LittleBigPlanet that had been sent to retailers and manufacturing new discs of the PlayStation 3 blockbuster with the offending music track removed.
"During the review process prior to the release of LittleBigPlanet, it has been brought to our attention that one of the background music tracks licensed from a record label for use in the game contains two expressions that can be found in the Qur'an," says a Sony statement.
"We have taken immediate action to rectify this and we sincerely apologise for any offence that this may have caused."
LittleBigPlanet was set for release in Australia on Thursday. A Sony Computer Entertainment Australia spokesman said the company does not yet have a new release date for the game but is confident the delay will be reasonably short.
A post on the official PlayStation forums from "Yasser" says "we Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Qur'an deeply offending (sic)" and that it was not the first time that games had contained material offensive to Muslims.
He said the offending musical track was in the first level of the third world in the game (Swinging Safari) and featured Arabic words from the Qur'an translated as "Every soul shall have the taste of death" and "All that is on earth will perish".
I suppose the zombies will be busy in the next several years obtaining copyrights to every phrase in the KKKorant:
And
As our Hugh as so clearly explained here, the zombies don't have a leg to stand on.
I will fight them! Let us all stand up to these morons who role over and beg for mercy because an infinite number of words are brought together that might resemble something from someone's scriptures.
To all us JW/DWers, fight these zombies; deny them any legitimacy to their freaking "holy" books.
Enough is enough! Sony, you have crossed a line, and the West will pay the price!
Be offended, Muslims:
http://sheikyermami.com/2006/12/20/the-imam/
I am quite pleased to say that the response to this on gaming discussion sites that I frequent has been a pleasant surprise. Many of the people on the sites understand how violent and prone to disproportionate response followers of Islam can be, the gamers are fully aware that the song has been out for over a year and was written by a Muslim, and many of them believe that SONY acted out of fear of violent retaliation rather than any actual respect for Islam.
It may not seem like much, but some gamers were also bringing up other games where this sort of thing had happened, or games that terribly insulted other religions but were released without trouble. If there are more incidents like this I think gamers are likely to become united in opposition to this sort of censorship. One one of the gaming sites I post at I even had the opportunity to tell others a bit about what Islam is really like and no one tried to argue that I was wrong.
Depending on how things go, I may be able to use this situation to introduce some of my fellow gamers to this site.
Bug,
Good for you! The more,the merrier!
Spread the word the best that you can.
I'm not a Gamer, but I fully support your on-line cause!
You know what I mean...See above...
BUG
go for it!
Through the 'gaming' community you can reach a critically important demographic - young non-Muslim men in countries all over the world.
At least, that would be my assumption, given that I have two sons, one aged 8, one aged 18, who are totally into Playstation etc.
(Should I ask how old you are? Teens? Twenties? Thirties? Older?)
The quicker that a majority of young and not-quite-so-young kafir men, all the way from Japan and India and Australia, to Europe and the Americas, become as Islamosavvy as Mr Fitzgerald and Mr Spencer and Mr Ibrahim and Geert Wilders, for example, the better for the self-defence of the kafir world against the looming menace of the Third Jihad.
Bug,
thank you for your regular feedback from the world of gamers. Common sense isn`t lost yet. Shows also an important front against jihad I haven't thought about before.
Just for fun and consideration: Would the Mohammedans be pissed off as well if it was the Shahada? Or the call for prayer from a minaret? This caterwauling mix of "music and koranic verses"?
Haram, I tellya!
"Every soul shall have the taste of death" and "All that is on earth will perish".
Uplifting statements like the above are from the Quor'an? No wonder Muslims are infused with deadly inshallah fatalism. Imagine walking around with those three sentences in your head, including the death sentence.
Music and words are offensive, but killing while shouting "Allah Akbar" is ok.
What makes this recent capitulation even more ridiculous is that the licensed song in question was released some years ago by an African musician, who is in fact a devout Muslim. Tapha Niang[1], by Toumani Diabate’s[2] Symmetrical Orchestra, has been on sale since 2006.
It’s astounding that a poorly worded forum post by an offended *individual*, purporting to represent the Muslim faith, can have such a far reaching effect on a multinational like Sony. You would have thought that popularising Muslim music might have been a good thing for World Order, but apparently not.
[1]: Amazon - Tapha-Niang
[2]: Toumani Diabate::Biography
fullasagoog of Sydney, Australia (Reply)
Tue 21 Oct 08 (11:53am)
Check the update links, here:
http://sheikyermami.com/2008/10/21/sony-is-very-sorry/
The List of Things That Offend Muslims
http://amboytimes.typepad.com/the_amboy_times/2007/02/the_list_of_thi.html
Sony should replace those phrases with "Smite the infidels at the neck!" or "Kill and be killed".
CAIR, I'm just trying to be helpful.
My, my; such generic words & sentences. Let's hope "the sky is blue" and "it's a lovely day in the neighborhood" aren't in the Qur'an, too! (Fat chance, eh?)
Asses. And that includes Sony, for such appaling dhimmi behavior.
I am getting real tired of Muslims! What isn't offensive to them? That would be anything that isn't Islamic. They're toeing the water now, but it's obvious where it's going. It's time for real people (I just can no longer accept that Muslims are fully human. They certainly aren't civilized in any sense of what is human.) to collectively tell the Muslims to SHUT UP, and where they can put there Koran.
What are Muslims going to do when they discover that a popular Christian hymn, copyright dated 1917, contains the exact theme and words from the Quran?
Verse 3 of "The Love of God" says:
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made.
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
Compare that with Surah 31:27 (also 18:109):
If all the trees of earth were pens, and the sea, replenished by seven more seas, were ink, the words of God could not be finished still.
The author of the song, F. M. Lehman, is reported to have been inspired by an Arabic inscription on a prison cell wall in the Middle East.
The significant difference is that the Christian version expounds the measureless love of God, while the Quran describes the limitless words, talking, of Allah.
I am so tired of this. What DOESN'T offend Muslims? They just need to sit down, shut up and get on with their pitiful lives.
Those Muslims who do not think like the others do, you'd better be speaking up.(I'm getting tired of that not happening as well. Makes me wonder.....)
Bug, you are right. And gamers have also noted that Sony also apologised to the Church of England for using the interior of Manchester Cathedral as a setting in the violent game "Resistance: Fall of Man" ... but did not change that game!
This link (reached via one of the links above; I can't remember which one but thanks!) made me chuckle...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article37241.ece
There used to be a comic strip in the 'Dandy' featuring various Mustafas, and starring Mustafa Phag, who was always shown smoking a cigarette. Unfortunately the PC wimps have put an end to such humour, just when we need it!