Muslim Massacre, an amateur PC game, has drawn sharp criticism from Britain's Islamic community.
As reported by the Telegraph, the game was programmed by Eric Vaughn aka Sigvatr, an American who currently lives in Australia. The website for the game calls it "The Game of Modern Religious Genocide," and describes it as follows:
The United States of America has declared war on Islam! Take control of the American hero and wipe out the Muslim race with an arsenal of the world's most destructive weapons! Don't be a liberal pussy!
Mohammed Shafiq, head of the Ramadhan Foundation, a U.K.-based Muslim youth organization criticized the game:
Encouraging children and young people in a game to kill Muslims is unacceptable, tasteless and deeply offensive. There is an increase in violence in this country and some of it comes from video games. When kids spend six hours a day on violent games they are more likely to go outside and commit violence.
If it was the other way around, with a game featuring Muslims killing Israelis or Americans, there would be uproar and rightly so. We would urge ISPs to take action against sites like this.
For his part, Sigvatr was unapologetic in posts about his game on SomethingAwful:
I think it's pretending to be legitimate commentary and I'm sure there will be lots of people who defend it on those grounds, but ultimately it's just a game where you blow the gently caress out of arabs... Anyone is free to believe whatever they won't (sic) though, because I don't even know how to interpret it myself anymore. the bottom line is that I enjoyed making it and it's fun to play...
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Peacefull Muslims Massacred 60 people in a hotel yesterday
Peace and change we can believe in, Barack Bin Obama
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And we'll have Fun, Fun Fun now that Daddy blew all muslims away
I hope the game has a "Nuke Ryiad, Saudi Arabia" level and a bonus cheat letting the player behead the Saudi kings who enable the training of Saudi kids suicide terrorism. This blog should let the public suggest screens and situations to the developer. The game sounds like fun, fun, fun
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This game is awesome. Brings back memories of C64 Commando, only faster and with better aim.
Additionally, its extreme political realism and wise, thoughtful portrayal of other cultures brings an entirely new dimension of depth to the game.
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Obvious troll is obvious.
what about CnC red alert? We kill russians?
CnC Generals? We kill Chinese and Arabs?
WoW? We kill furries?
Unreal TOurnament? We Kill Egyptians!
GTA? We kill everybody!
Games = serious business
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Anonymous - September 12, 2008 at 12:02 am -0500
I completely agree, fuck islam, i don't care much if muslims offended god or jesus or whatever, i live my life the way i can in this society and then them dumb a-holes come crying to us about a game offending them and as Ken - September 13, 2008 at 9:58 am -0500 said remember 9/11, 3000 lost and you moan about us making a game that offends your religion or offends you, go get fucked, it's a game designed for fun. Remember the saying you can do as much good as you want but the world will still remember you by the bad things you did.
Islam is such a shit stirring religion, all they do is moan, they commit a crime that kills loads of people they shut up, then something happens and they moan about it, someone says something like i am and im a racist for it, just go get fucked, you're all a bunch of wankers who cost us tax because you all live off benefits. You come here to live but you cause more trouble than good. Sadly in the UK we dont have tough enough sentences for scum like you. I say every muslim who commits a crime should be deported to india or somewhere like that, every british criminal should serve their time in prison end of.
Finally just think, what terrorist prison is mainly full of followers of islam, yep guantanamo bay, and most of you islamic scum moan that it's against their human rights, well shut up. A terrorist should be tortured to death because it's one less off the streets. Maybe i should run into a mosque with a pig strapped to me, wouldn't that be funny. ye i'm sure you'd start crying.
Now call me what you want but im sure im not the only person that feels this way, its just you know you've got us backed into a corner because now im called a racist. And for some of you muslims that do live their lives to a good standard and have a name for themselves this doesn't all apply to you.
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Mr Anonymous coward,
Its a pity you feel such hatred about Islam. Do we hate other religions? Nope, not at all. I suggest you either increase your hatred and be hones to GOD to help you or stop crying with these bullshits.
By the way... the creator of the game has apologized in the media about this game.
Cheers,
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try harder at trolling
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This game is heaps fun, high scores anyone. 1574 muslims downed ^^
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Peace should prevail and all races have right to have one.
But I see here, people mostly complaining about Islam and Muslims. Free World doesn't mean you are free to hurt others physically or emotionally.
If there would have been a game of Muslim hero killing all christians or americans... we as muslims would still condemn it. Killing germans in your games isn't good at all. this will ultimately arise a essence of hatred. Yes it was in real history but doesn't mean you scratch the dust over it from time to time and revive the essence of those times.
Normally we play games where we kill bunch of bad guys, robbers, criminal gangs etc... but this one by Eric Vaughn totally reflects hatred about Muslims and eliminating race!!! Most of you wouldn't know Islamic laws and thus spilling out hatred. You have to judge Islam by its teaching but not the followers. Act of terrorism and honor killings are against Islamic laws too.
The guys who are cursing ALLAH and Prophet Muhammad [PBUH]... GET A LIFE. Its same as cursing Jesus [PBUH], Moses [PBUH] or any Prophet. Ever heard of Muslim cursing other GODs or Prophets? No.
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Yeah right, and who commands the muslim children to recite the quran believing it's their duty to "KILL THE INFIDEL WHERE EVER YOU FIND THEM" ?? (among 160 other verses designed to cause them to hate non-muslims)
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YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT IT.
If you are a game lover, try spending 6-8 hours a day playing racing games or hunting zombies.
Islam is about PEACE!!!
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Peace should prevail and all races have right to have one.
But I see here, people mostly complaining about Islam and Muslims. Free World doesn't mean you are free to hurt others physically or emotionally.
If there would have been a game of Muslim hero killing all christians or americans... we as muslims would still condemn it. Killing germans in your games isn't good at all. this will ultimately arise a essence of hatred. Yes it was in real history but doesn't mean you scratch the dust over it from time to time and revive the essence of those times.
Normally we play games where we kill bunch of bad guys, robbers, criminal gangs etc... but this one by Eric Vaughn totally reflects hatred about Muslims and eliminating race!!! Most of you wouldn't know Islamic laws and thus spilling out hatred. You have to judge Islam by its teaching but not the followers. Act of terrorism and honor killings are against Islamic laws too.
The guys who are cursing ALLAH and Prophet Muhammad [PBUH]... GET A LIFE. Its same as cursing Jesus [PBUH], Moses [PBUH] or any Prophet. Ever heard of Muslim cursing other GODs or Prophets? No.
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Yeah right, and who commands the muslim children to recite the quran believing it's their duty to "KILL THE INFIDEL WHERE EVER YOU FIND THEM" ?? (among 160 other verses designed to cause them to hate non-muslims)
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YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT IT.
If you are a game lover, try spending 6-8 hours a day playing racing games or hunting zombies.
Islam is about PEACE!!!
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When you can't do anything just take you frustration out on a game. With all this sophisticated technologies these days you will still never be able to find Osama in real world.
He is so damn good for you people. Enjoy!
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What happened to games being fun to play? It's a fantasy. I would like to have tried a demo on 9/11 to see what the fuss is about, but now it is censored. Shouldn't all shoot 'em up games, movies and books be banned too?
The game appears to be based on the fullfillment of Muslim doctrine and fatwahs. What is the issue with pretending to send them to pair-of-dice if it makes the player feel good? We pretend to send Nazi's to Hell in games.
If this game was about Muslims killing Jews and Christians for fun or religious reason, there would not be the same controvercy.
Free speech cuts both ways, so let sales decide if this is a "good" game or not.
Don't cencor the gamer's artistic rights and programming code. Even if you think it is evil, "Trash has a Right to be Trash" in a Free World.
Love,
4 Profit on Earth
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DONT BAN THE GAME; BAN THE TERRORISTS!
Well my feelings were hurt on 9-11. Those freekin crybabies can piss up a rope! How many "Honor killings" of young girls will be commited today by those maniacs? Send them all back to their dessert ratholes.
REMEMBER 9-11 AND OVER 3000 INNOCENTS MURDERED
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I love it. I can't wait for Trig to grow up so he can play.
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Guess what..we are offended when 102 people die because of some cartoons.
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"When kids spend six hours a day on violent games they are more likely to go outside and commit violence."
Yeah right, and who commands the muslim children to recite the quran believing it's their duty to "KILL THE INFIDEL WHERE EVER YOU FIND THEM" ?? (among 160 other verses designed to cause them to hate non-muslims)....where do terroists come from?...they are children who were brainwashed by their muslim peers and fed on the evil ideology of islam. People in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.
Fuck Allah!! and kill the muzzard race! ...thats how the good fight prevails over evil ...kill them all and lets get on with living together without some evil spawn deceptively devouring all our freedoms through both passive and forced infiltration of our homelands. Islam means to have us all submit to their demands...I for one will never submit...I'd rather die taking them with me than to submit (islam) myself to their evil indoctrination and evil Allah!!
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Pretty good fun. Some of them are quite tricky to kill. Managed to get past Osama (who orders planes to crash on you) but then got killed by a bloke with a rocket launcher.
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Well well, the media put their finger on the pulse of post-9/11 world 7 years on and probably had kittens when they discovered this totally 'new' game that's brand new and new, although it's old news already.
I remember when Carmaggedon came out and they had to replace the people splatting red blood with zombies that splatted green goo instead. It didn't really bother me too much because I still got to run over things that looked like people (and sounded like them!) That's why I like computer games. I get to do things I don't normally do in real life.
This game isn't even realistic like COD4 and it's essentially the same two groups of people. I like the muslims I've met, but I don't know the muslims I haven't met because we've never met. They probably would be offended by this game because they are muslim, and muslim people have a strong set of beliefs.
I'm not really offended by it, because I don't have a strong set of beliefs. I'm probably desensitized because I've played hundreds of games where I kill Russians, Americans, Britons, Australians, and Pyros. However, I don't think I've played many games where I kill people who follow a particular religion - apart from Doom of course (they worship Satan in that one).
Overall, it could have been a game about killing aliens, or Jews, or 16-year-old-LAN-party-geeks, and would still be the same. The only difference is at this particular moment in the history of the world, quite a lot of people are paranoid about anyone who follows Islam because of what some muslims did to their country because of what their country did over a prolonged period to an entire region of countries where the majority of the population are muslim.
Did that make sense? Probably about as much as this debate about pixels.
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"SILENCE SIGVATR !!!!! I KILL YOU !!!!"
LOL!!
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"When kids spend six hours a day on violent games they are more likely to go outside and commit violence."
When kids spend six hours a day playing video games they are more likely to stay inside and play more video games.
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uh, i studied laws of islam and those terrorists are breaking every one of them!
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I don't really think Kotaku would have a spazz attack if someone were to make a game depicting their deaths. Maybe that's because they have enough brain cells to realize that it wouldn't inevitably lead to their demise at the hands of some "crazed gamer" (LOL). They'd probably find it more humorous than anything else.
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"When kids spend six hours a day on violent games they are more likely to go outside and commit violence."
Call me crazy but i don't think anyone will even spend six hours a lifetime on that game. Boxhead already perfected that type of game, and boxhead is only funny in about 10 minutes before it gets old.
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sat·ire [sat-ahyuh
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-The Bird
-The Bird
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And this is one reason I'm glad to be an Atheist.
United we Stand, Divided we fall.
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Normally I'm one to defend a game that draws criticism just for it's content. SCMRPG is a game that's mediocre but it has a good message behind it and can do a lot fo good (initiating discussion, putting people into a different frame of mind about the events, ect) from what I can see of this (no I haven't played it and I hate giving judgement without doing so) there is no message, no agenda. It's just killing Muslims which frankly is stupid, irresponsible, and offensive.
Bottom line, making such a broad judgement on such a large group and then asking people to "wipe out the Muslim race with an arsenal of the world's most destructive weapons! Don't be a liberal pussy!" is extremely ignorant and just plain stupid.
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yet, they're incouraged to kill us.
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As a muslim I gotta say, it's a badly designed game. I couldn't care less about WHO's getting blown away or WHY. The game by design is stupid, so try as I might, I couldn't get OUTRAGED. All in all, we won't remember this game or it's creator in a month.
It's certainly offensive to me. For obvious reasons. Considering the amount of offensive material available all over the 'net though, it's not a big deal.
As for you Jack, have you grabbed that Wal-Mart application yet? Don't forget to be sincere when saying "Welcome to Wal-Mart!" And try not to sue. Old habits die hard y'know.
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Muslim race? i didnt know that there was race called muslims.
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what if this Sigvatr got kidnapped by a group of radical Muslim group:
RM: American Infidels! We have taken your great hero Sigvatr hostage, and we will-
(phone click)
RM: Hello? Hello?
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it's just a game where you blow the gently caress out of arabs
I see that somebody doesn't have a forums account.
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I am astounded, as alwasys, at an instant assumption that if an action occurs in a game, the game is endorsing it.
Why does Law and Order special victims unit keep on endorsing rape and muder?
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Agreed. I could make a game where all you do is kill little children, that doesn't mean I endorse it or think it's even remotely acceptable, I just think it'd be an interesting/fun game idea (which I mean, come on, some people would have fun with it, and it's nothing to get offended about).
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This shows how sick one can be...
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Muslim "race"? What an idiot.
Let's see: Some moron came out with a "Let's kill the Jews" videogame, would that send off any alarm bells? It should.
What if somebody made a cop-killing game? Or a prositute-killing game? Can you imagine such a thing?
How about a Kill Posters at Kotaku and Those Who Run that site game? Maybe then somebody in the video game biz would wake up. Duh.
Jack Thompson
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Duh's not a word Jackie
And how dare you compare this aberration of a game to the art of GTA? First; targeting an ethnic group IS wrong, killing corrupt leeches of the law ISN'T wrong
Second; I am quite convinced that we can all agree "Kotaku Kraze" (generic name for a Kotaku killing game) would be quite fun
Sincerely;
James DuBois
P.S.
Go to Hell
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Second; I am quite convinced that we can all agree "Kotaku Kraze" (generic name for a Kotaku killing game) would be quite fun
especially since Jack himself posted on Kotaku and thus would be one of the people killed, figuratively speaking
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」
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Anyone down to make a "Disbar Jack Thompson" game?
Seriously, there are definitely some design opportunities that would be easy to pull off...
-Every time Jack tries to talk louder, slam your gavel down and yell "order in the court" (Perfect for the Wiimote)
-When Jack holds up an oversized sign that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the matter at hand, the player can either take it upon themselves to remove the sign or signal for the bailiff to tazer Mr. Thompson
-Players must recognize which incoming motions are legitimate...and which motions are from Mr. Thompson.
-The finale allows players to use simple facts and logic in order to aggravate Mr. Thompson the most. The best endings can be achieved when Jack either walks out of the courtroom before a decision is made and he is spouting conspiracy theory, or Jack announces that he be pursuing a career as... I dunno... a sign twirler.
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Keep making your hypocritical death threats Mr. Thompson.
One week until you lose your power.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.
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How about a Kill Posters at Kotaku and Those Who Run that site game?
seeing as how you have posted at Kotaku quite a few times Jack, I'm assuming you have suicidal tendencies.
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」
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"How about a Kill Posters at Kotaku and Those Who Run that site game?"
Myself, as someone who has posted at Kotaku frequently in the past I have to say that would be an awesome idea! So any game developers out there I give my full permission to use my likeness to commit digital homicide against.
You see Jack as I, unlike you, can seperate fantasy from reality I have no qualms about having a digital representation of myself murdered frequently an worldwide.
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How 'bout a game where you kill the forces of Satan? Oh wait, that was Doom, and you were the only one who had an outrage.
Oh, and prostitutes are criminals, not lawful contributors of society like most police are. Yes, there are some cops who break the law, planting marijuana in order to have sex with unsuspecting women and such, and don't deserve to be protected.
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」
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I am astounded, as always, at an instant assumption that if an action occurs in a game, the game is endorsing it.
(thanks to whichever Anonymous typed this line)
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Funny how noone has made a Jack Thompson killing game...
Jack, why don't you go play an attorney simulator and get real good at it?
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Sure they have. GP reported on one quite a while back. Here's another:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/386525
Andrew Eisen
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BTW, Jack, not posting on JAABlog anymore? Did they start blocking your postings?