Online Game Angered Religious Groups
April 28, 2009 by srfto
A online flash game that was made a year ago is starting to cause controversy Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). Faith Fighter, which was launched in January of 2008 by Molleindustria, the game allows players to pit various Gods against one another in Mortal Kombat-style action. One of the characters in the game was closely resembling Allah, the Islamic God which cause them to take action on the game.
Today after an official statement by the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) we decided to remove the game Faith Fighter from our site.
Faith Fighter was meant to be a game against intolerance that used over the top irony and a cartoonish style to express the instrumental use of religions.
Faith Fighter depicted in a mildly politically incorrect way all the major religions as a response to the one-way islamophobic satire of the Danish Mohammad cartoons.
If a established organization didn’t understand the irony and the message of the game and is claiming it is inciting intolerance, we simply failed.
GamePolitics reported that an unnamed representative of the Federation of Muslim Organisations added:
In the current climate, this game can only create fear about religion. Having images depicting Muhammad in this way is also very offensive to our faith.
However, a spokesperson for Molleindustria defended the work:
[The purpose of the game is] to push gamers to reflect on how sacred representations are often used to fuel or justify conflicts between people.
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