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Muslim Massacre: The Game of Modern Religious Genocide
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==Controversy== The game garnered a couple of days of media attention around September 11, 2008, on the same date as the anniversary of the [[September 11 attacks]]. On September 11 Mohammed Shafiq, the chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, stated that "Encouraging children and young people in a game to kill Muslims is unacceptable, tasteless and deeply offensive".<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news| url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2776951/Muslim-Massacre-video-game-condemned-for-glamorising-slaughter-of-Arabs.html| title = 'Muslim Massacre' video game condemned for glamorising slaughter of Arabs| author = Moore, Matthew| publisher = [[The Daily Telegraph]]| date = 2008-09-11|accessdate = 2008-09-12 | location=London}}</ref> On 13 September a statement was made by Inayat Bunglawala, spokesperson for the [[Muslim Council of Britain]] saying, "The makers of this 'game' and the ISPs [Internet service providers] who are hosting it should be quite ashamed of themselves. Anti-Muslim prejudice is already on the increase and needs to be challenged and not reinforced through tasteless and offensive stunts like this."<ref name="ABC">{{cite web| url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/13/2363530.htm| title = 'Muslim Massacre' computer game blasted in Britain| publisher = [[ABC News]]| date = 2008-09-13|accessdate = 2008-09-13}}</ref> Also on 13 September the Islamic Council of Queensland president Suliman Sabdia urged Police Minister Judy Spence to shut down the site; subsequently the [[Queensland Police]] launched an investigation, since the game's author (although an American citizen) is based in Brisbane.<ref name="Courier Mail">{{cite news| url = http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24336179-952,00.html |title = Anti-Muslim computer game stirs wave of anger | publisher = [[Courier Mail]]| date = 2008-09-13|accessdate = 2008-09-13 | first=Hannah | last=Davies}}</ref> On 13 September the game's creator took down the game's download site with a statement of apology on his personal website, claiming his original intention in releasing the game, to "mock the foreign policy of the United States and the commonly held belief in the United States that Muslims are a hostile people to be held with suspicion", had backfired and not been understood by the wider public, and that its release "did not achieve its intended effect and instead only caused hurt to hospitable, innocent people.".<ref>[http://kotaku.com/5049613/muslim-massacre-creator-tucks-tail-apologizes 'Muslim Massacre' Creator Tucks Tail, Apologizes] Kotaku.com, 14 September 2008, accessed 29 September 2008</ref> However it later emerged that the apology was indeed fake.<ref>[http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/09/17/muslim-massacre-creator-my-apology-was-fake Muslim Massacre Creator: My Apology Was Fake]</ref> On 15 September the [[LA Times]] Middle East blog ''Babylon & Beyond'' printed a comment from an anonymous contributor to an article on the website of the Arab TV channel [[Al Arabiya]] about the game, which stated, "if it were a game showing Muslims killing Israelis, the whole world would have sought revenge."<ref>[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/09/middle-east-mus.html MIDDLE EAST: "Muslim massacre" game stirs debate]</ref> Two games in the Hezbollah Special Forces series depict the killing of (presumably Jewish)Israelis, but have not garned any attention.<ref>http://wasteofmyoxygen.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/hezbollah-special-forces-2-training-kids-to-kill-jews/</ref>
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