Mr Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the UK Muslim youth organisation the Ramadhan Foundation, said the game was unacceptable, tasteless and deeply offensive."When kids spend six hours a day on violent games they are more likely to go outside and commit violence," he said."If it was the other way around, with a game featuring Muslims killing Israelis or Americans, there would be uproar and rightly so."
Muslim Massacre was developed by Eric Vaughn, known online as "Sigvatr", a 22-year-old from Brisbane. He first released it online in January this year.The game begins with audio from George Bush speeches, edited together to sound like a condemnation of Muslims.The graphics are similar to 1990s arcade shooter games, with a bird's eye view showing the protagonist, a tiny pixelated US soldier, running and shooting other characters.Mr Vaughn's website links to other projects such as a fictional sporting league for real-life massacre shooters and a webcomic. Muslim Massacre bears a resemblance to two other independently-developed "shock" games released online: V-Tech Rampage (2007), which recreated the Virgina Tech shootings and Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (2005), which was a recreation of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings.Those who have played Muslim Massacre provided mixed feedback to Mr Vaughn.
"I think it’s brave, because it’s the kind of satire that many people will misunderstand, especially in America and in Islamic countries," said a comment posted on Mr Vaughn's website."Still, you can’t be misunderstood any worse than the ‘super columbine massacre’ guy."The Ramadhan Foundation has asked the British Government to conduct an inquiry into the game and urged internet service providers to block access to it.
Links
Ramadhan Foundation statement -http://www.ramadhanfoundation.com/muslimmassacre.htm
Super Columbine Massacre - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Columbine_Massacre_RPG!V-Tech Rampage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Tech_Rampage
By Chloe Lake, Technology Editor
PS:This is UNACEPTABLE...!Violence generates more violence.Not all muslims are terrorists.BUT there are some that HATE ALL MUSLIMS just because many of them have radicalized and turn into dhimmis and jews haters.This type of games are indoctrination games that will breed more violence...straight from hell...
As in the days of Noah...