There is no problem with this unless these video games contain disrespectful portrayals of material that is sacred to Christians or Jews or Hindus or Buddhists. Certainly there are precedents for Islam being treated differently in such matters: remember the crucifix dipped in urine was hailed as high art, while publications around the world fear to stand up for the freedom of speech by publishing Muhammad cartoons.
There is also a tendency on the part of Islamic advocacy groups to react with outrage to any fictional depiction of Islamic jihad terrorists, as if such people do not exist in real life. This reinforces such outrage.
“Activision apologises and removes ‘disrespectful Qur’an appearance’ from Call of Duty Vanguard,” Video Games Chronicle, November 11, 2021:
Activision has apologised to the Muslim community for showing the Qu’ran [sic] in a disrespectful manner in Call of Duty: Vanguard.
One of the zombie maps shows pages from the holy book lying on the floor, with the phrase “in the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” visible.
Placing the Qu’ran [sic] on the floor is considered disrespectful, so the inclusion of the pages led to complaints from some Muslim players.
Now the official Call of Duty Middle East Twitter account has posted an apology saying the content has been removed.
“Call of Duty is made for everyone”, the tweet reads in Arabic. “There was content insensitive to Muslims included in the game, and it has been removed. It was not supposed to exist as it appeared in the game. We deeply apologise.
“We are also taking all necessary measures at this moment within the company to determine and understand the situation and to avoid such errors in the future.”
Former Vlambeer founder Rami Ismail was one of the most prominent names speaking out against the content.
“Could we please just not put text from the Quran on the ground or on places people where people can walk on it,” he asked on Twitter….
Dhimmi says
the fear of the real terror counts. I suppose terrorists were offended
bruce D Watt says
there is no such thing as Islamophobia , all fear of Islam is warranted
Nigel Blumenthal says
“Could we please just not put text from the Quran on the ground or on places people where people can walk on it,”
Of course, the same respect should be shown to many other items, such as, for instance, the flag of Israel, which is regularly disrespected by being walked on or havoing feet wiped on, by Muslims of all nationalities.
Keith O says
So Islam, what are yo offended by today?
WANKERS!
Treereen says
Offended, are they? How sad, what a pity, never mind…
How about this? I don’t think this made rounds on the BBC or other MSM:
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/01/02/iraqi-muslims-caught-selling-shoes-made-to-trample-the-cross/
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/iraq-kurdish-muslim-authorities-allow-sale-of-anti-christian-shoes-that-allow-wearer-to-trample-on-cross
But this did:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/nike-air-max-trainers-allah-sneakers-recall-petition-arabic-offensive-a8753686.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6640481/Muslims-demand-Nike-withdraw-insulting-Air-Max-trainers-Allah-written-sole.html
https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/29/muslims-urge-nike-recall-trainers-logo-sole-says-allah-8407154/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8285782/muslims-nike-recall-air-max-trainer-allah/
gravenimage says
Good points, Treereen.
gravenimage says
Video game developer apologizes, removes ‘disrespectful’ images of Qur’an on floor from Call of Duty Vanguard
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Part of the daily “offendedness” from the “religion of peace”. Gets really old…
OLD GUY says
Why should we care if islam is offended, they islamic followers have absolutely no respect for anyone or anything that is NOT approved by islamic rule.
As a matter of fact the Quran and Sharia teach them to destroy the non believers of islam. And if you look around the world you will see daily the destruction of Christian churches and the rape and murder of Christian and Jews by islamic followers.
We should ban and destroy everything islamic as they do Christian or Jewish everywhere they can.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
It SHOULD be selectable as to whether the player wants to throw it on the ground, step on it or virtually wipe his Azz with it, and then have all the required graphics to completely portray the player’s choice!!!
Lol!