Call of Duty map removed at request of Muslim gamers
Activision temporarily pulls Favela multiplayer map from Modern Warfare 2 after users find holy writings in map's bathroom.
Activision has temporarily removed popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer map Favela at the request of Muslim gamers, Kotaku reports.
YouTube user KhaleDQ84EveR points out in a video that two paintings are hung in the map's bathroom that feature a quote from the Muslim prophet Muhammad, which reads "Allah is beautiful and He loves beauty." He explains that it is forbidden for Islamic holy teachings to be featured in bathrooms and sought an apology from Infinity Ward, as well as the removal of the content.
That's exactly what has happened, as Infinity Ward parent company Activision issued a statement to Kotaku apologizing for the issue and noting that the map has been removed from rotation. It will return once it is edited. Additionally, the same texture will be removed from Modern Warfare 3.
"We apologize to anyone who found this image offensive," reads a line from the statement. "Please be assured we were unaware of this issue and that there was no intent to offend. We are working as quickly as possible to remove this image and any other similar ones we may find from our various game libraries."
"Activision and our development studios are respectful of diverse cultures and religious beliefs, and sensitive to concerns raised by its loyal game players," the statement continues. "We thank our fans for bringing this to our attention."
Eddie Makuch (Mack-ooh) is a News Editor at GameSpot. He lives in Connecticut, works out of the company's New York City office, and loves extra chunky peanut butter.
An effective, diplomatic move on Activision's part. Followers of Islam are very clean when it comes to bathrooms, and nothing sacred should be in or around uncleanliness.
PuffinGod im muslim and wtf?
There is nothing wrong in putting up a verse in a bathroom in a videogame imo.... ITS A VIDEOGAME. who cares? The amount of irrelevant and insignificant stuff muslims cry about it just hilarious at times. If we focused all this energy on stuff more important then i think people would think a bit better of us.
"Oh nooooo islamic verse in a bathroom in a videogame"..... OMG my religion is being attacked by americans!!!! lets demand them to remove this, if they don't we will boycott their games and start a riot and burn things!!!! Even though they are not trying to be offensive in anyway and just making the experience as authentic as possible. Now thats hilarious because i just called a COD game authentic.
it's amazing how people judge an entire nation because of the actions of a few muslims
@fefisgbf13 THIS!! At last someone with commen sense!
fefisgbf13 Happens quite often with a number of countries. Maybe it's human nature to judge the many by few. Only thing I have to back that up is how often it occurs, or perhaps it's ignorance which also runs thick in the veins of many.
OverallYeah
Stop acting like they didn't do anything presently. They have many war campaigns in the past. You really need to do your homework.
Your idea that Radicals in the current age are not a part of Islam ? Yet they claim to be.
Nobody is innocent except the people that are surrounded by war on all sides. To say that Muslims never started any war is a FLAT OUR LIE.
OverallYeahWiki is not the most reliable source but, most of this is based off of history facts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests
This link provides a little more than just Muslim wars but, present exremists issues that claim to be Muslim.
OverallYeah
Anyone who needs to get there facts straight is you.
He's not offended by the constant bloodshed but rather, a almost hidden Islamic verse inside a badly rendered picture frame probably placed by somebody who did not notice it and did not even model the object? Nice one.
Why does this matter? There's a completely decimated church in Resistance that is based on a real church but that wasn't removed from the game. So why is it that Muslims can complain and then ALWAYS get their way?
If every other religion in the world is able to be satirized, mocked, ridiculed, and disrespected, then Muslims need to learn to be able to do the same.
Jedilink109 this is a matter of love ,patience, we muslims love their religion and holy things more then christians, there fore we love jesus christ more then christians. they dont carebut we muslims know the respect of their religion.the common example is use is, one son care and respect his parents,and other dont care his parent and abuse them or use bad lannguage aganst them, who is right??????hope u understand the answer of ur question
MUDDDASSARJedilink109
Oh now your more respecting of religion than Christians. LMAO get off your high horse.
No I am not Christian and your full of @$#@!
MUDDDASSAR Jedilink109 Lolwait. Muslims love their religion than Christians? Do you know what you're saying? Even implying one religion loves certain aspects that are shared by what is integral to religion is almost a slap in the face. Not to Christianity. Not to the Muslim faith. Every religion out there.
Jedilink109 not to be patronizing, indeed I like you comment and the questions on it could have interesting answers... I think it matters for thing that happened, thing of public knowledge, in the East. What happened with that movie about Mahoma recently and what happened when this prophet was drawn in a cartoon of a newspaper: After all that chaos and colateral deaths and damage. I think they get their way with because some of us are afraid of what could happen. "Afraid" is astrong word maybe, but I can't find other more apropiatte. Sorry for my bad english.
Mean while....
We can kill innocent people in an airplane; awesome logic.
Fightingfan
Mean while.....
we can bring the world trade center in a controlled demolition and them blame it on Muslims; awesome logic.
Meteora1991 Fightingfan
It's the radicals that claim to be so what do you expect ?
COME ON! Why do we HAVE to troll the muslim world when we KNOW they hate it? for fucks sake. I dont care if we have a 'right' to be dumb fucks. Just have some common fucking decency and dont put their scriptures on the fucking toilet.
U c the difference between u and them is that u dont have a problem insulting their prophet or religion. On the other hand they never insult other peoples religion. When have they ever burned the bible? When have they ever made an insulting movie about Jesus? The answer is never.
Instead of seeing things from their point of view u simply say ?yes its an insult to ur religion get over it? isnt that kindda like saying ?I dont seek peace, I seek war?
Ur comment does not say anything except ?Im a hateful ignorant person?
This is a reply to all of u who say ?Yes its an insult to ur religion get over it?
Meteora1991 HI fave man, and rival 4 life sega brother :P
Meteora1991 Fundamentalists of all stripes have been killing others for centuries upon centuries. And that includes radical Muslims (along with just about every, single other religion in existence).
I do not seek war whatsoever. I just do not like one particular "faith" feeling as if it cannot ever be made fun of or mocked.
And, yes, some Muslim radicals do indeed make fun of other religions and nonbelievers. Some countries, like Iran and Saudi Arabia, run hateful cartoons mocking Jews and other "infidels". No one's hands are really clean in this affair.
However, it was a bit rude to put Muslim scripture in a bathroom; that was probably the intent of whoever put it there. But you also must understand that you and your faith are not above being criticized and made fun of, just as I am not above it.
Oh ffs. Stop effin whining and grow a pair! So many of us deal with racial bs, or some other form of offensive, religious bs daily. SO WHAT!! We get over it and keep moving. Muslims are not the only ones who deal with "offensive" stuff.
SMH! GTF over it!
Dark_Arcitekt wow some one got a good raising, real mature
Hate to say this but it keeps looking more and more that "the Project" (google it) is real.
Seriously if you are offended by something there is a simple Solution. DON"T PLAY IT!!! DON"T WATCH IT!!! DON'T LISTEN TO IT, DON'T READ IT!!!!!!
Get over yourselves and buck up and get over it!!!
'It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?' ?Stephen Fry
DarkSaber2k I love Fry. He has always reminded me a bit of Hitchens. Both of them are ballsy Brits.
It's weird how a person can be sensitive (hypersensitive even) about something like religious doctrines but still play a game like Call of Duty, which at face value is mostly about simulated murder. And three years later as well.
Everything offends muslims
I hope GameSpot just close this page it doesn't bring anything but trouble, please respond GS :/ pretty please .
America's biggest bank is being funded by Muslims, lot's of america's companies web sites and all is being funded by Muslims , not just america even here in the UK too and lots other countries, i guess people just learn how to hate :/.
I mean ppl think we are bad and all of that and hate us will that's your view, will in our view we see the ones that hate us are bad too i mean you invade a country as you wish and kill it's young and rape their women and you think you'r the good guys? and other think the there are lots of you who are good actually great in manners i myself went to the states some ppl treated me like will...an terrorist or something like that idk if it's because i'm British or muslim ( i guess muslim) but lots lots lots others i swear they where i mean really nice to me they defended me treated me in really nice way some taught me how to skate and other show to ride a motorbike and surf and all they were lovely , and there were what you call bikers who actually where nice to me :P that wasn't expected , uhhhh great times, the ppl who here hate on islam in the comments , maybe because the media played on them washed their brains with lies, you really should visit a country before you judge it ,that's what i did with america and now i have way other thought about them, and all of you should search on the internet before judging, not just islam but anything else, same goes to my muslim brothers, don't judge by the first look there is a heart to everything, learn, search go to the ppl ,live with them, learn how to love how to live in peace how to understand, that's all i want to say, like always, have a lovely day :D.
sgt_F79 That is so well said. Our leaders like to pit up us against each other but really we've all got alot more in common than we think, regardless of religion. There is nothing particularily 'violent' or 'hateful' about islam. If Europe (where i live) had been invaded and was patrolled and kept in check by 700 military bases and high tech drones, i suspect some christians would start blowing themselves up aswell. I cant FATHOM how my kinsmen get it into their heads that somehow muslims probably just 'hates our freedom' WTF!!?!?
i have only one thing to say to people who are escalating the divide/hatred/sarcasm/clash/mockery between muslims and the rest of the world:
there are now officially speaking 1.5 Billion people on this planet who believe in Islam and its values. That makes up upto 25% of the Human population on this planet.
What are you gonna do about it ? Fight them ! Kill Them ! Mock Them ! ISolate them ! or TALK TO THEM and reach an understanding ?
Furthermore, as per World bank and UN data islam is the fasting growing Religion in terms of converts and population growth. We're talking big and true numbers here.
hellkick Whether or not an understanding should be found has nothing to do with numbers.
parrot_of_adun peaceful coexistence has everything to do with numbers. everything has to do with numbers my dear, from ur red blood cell count to votes in an election to number of people in ur city. NUMBERS are always important,
The whole point of playing games is to relax and enjoy taking the break, reality with religion incorporated just complicates stuff, and keeping it in a game just defeats the purpose of taking the break.
If Muslims are the group of people who get offended by stuff such as this, keep it out. These are minor unnecessary details that just annoys the peace, much like the Nazis drawing pictures of big nosed Jews, they cause no physical damage, but tend to be regarded as annoying and offensive by the targeted group.
And just because middle eastern Muslims lost their stupid marbles, and the US just cant stop lifting up their skirts, doesn't mean the rest of us chilled out gamers who happened to follow Islam have to accept such petty annoyances.
Entertaining yourself by offending others puts you at the same level as the Arian bullshit the Nazis spewed in the last century. It puts you at the same level as those retarded Arabs who thinks blowing up other people's shit is the thing to do.
And get this straight guys the Arabs got Islam wrong, not the other way around. The rest of us are just chill. (For the ignorant shit-pots, the rest of us means Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, India) We offend no one, and expect offense from no one.
High 5 to Infinity Ward for respecting their fans.
Screw the ignorant retards with those stupid comments about religion, just because your uncultured doesn't mean you have to pollute the environment for the rest of us.
fayaadislam , right on bro
fayaadislam I'm sorry brother but ain't Arabs muslims too? why would you insult them then?... and btw arabs got the right Islam it started there, i mean have you ever been to KSA? ppl around the world say it's all camels they treat girls badly and all of that, but i went there and i swear it was the other way around i mean it's even better than you'll ever think, girls have their own drivers :P they go to collage there are business women there the ppl r nice they have malls and they know islam like the back of their hands, of course there are some ppl in the arabian world who got islam wrong those ppl represent about 10% of the arabian world so that's not much it's only 10% and there is iraq the shia'a you know them those are bad but not all of Iraq are shia'a, and there is iran which is not Arabian it is actually helping that jerk Bashar Al-asd in Syria to kill his own ppl, but you can't judge the whole country, but anyways yeah that's my point you can't blame the Arab, Africans ,Asians or anyone else we are all Muslims we are one that type of behavior that separate us, once we had the greatest nation in the world we had knowledge that ppl other than Muslims back then thought we are aliens :P we gave Europe the knowledge that made them build cars rocket ships, planes and all, once they were walking with mud up to their knees, now they are in suits walking on paved ways,and still they hate us :P oh well that's life,anyways you should not be insulting each other, and BTW IMO i think Malaysia like you said got the right Islam that's why they are advancing i actually i hope i was from there :S, peace be upon you brother have a lovely day :)
sgt_F79 fayaadislam Sorry for the generalization mate, I should have specifically mentioned the fanatics. I have friends from most major Arab states, including KSA, so i believe i am not that ignorant. Its the fanatics who make the picture look wrong, and right now they seem to come from the Middle East, but then again we have our own ones.
Damn. Its turning out to be such a difficult world, us having to be go through the trouble of being specific just because some people are stupid enough to talk about things they shouldn't be concerned about, and some react retarded just because the former is ignorant.
fayaadislam
Your comment is full of hipocritical shit.
Sturmfuehrer_ what dude i stand corrected. never happened to you before? The whole point is that two groups of people with different viewpoints should just ignore mentioning things which might be offensive to the other, since it getting involved achieves nothing. Get the point dude, learn to cancel out the noise. smoke something if you have to.
Everybody blaims all the muslims, i just blamed the arab ones, but should have specifically mentioned the fanatics. Extremists are the topic here, sheesh.
Can't believe how stupid this is...
nightsinner dude way to be as ignorant and uncultured as a member of the Ku Klux. Got a swastika tattooed to you but-hole?
fayaadislam Well you're one to talk. First of all, being insensitive to a belief is much different from be insensitive to trait someone was born with (that is, the latter is far worse). Second, being "cultured" does not automatically make one sympathetic to the repressive views of various religions. Third, nightsinner is being irreverent, not hateful, so a comparison to the KKK or Nazis is rather obviously uncalled for.
parrot_of_adun Thanks for putting things into order Mr. parrot. I got carried away seeing his immaturity. Respect.
fayaadislam nightsinner
I actually have no problem with what he said and shares his same sentiment. You may think its insensitive, but its also insensitive that we need to give a shit about what everyone feels because someone might get offended. In this ase, some people might get offended with killing people, should we just get rid of the Killing in COD?
Are you getting the point? Something of a whole should not be sacrificed just because a minority of people would get offended, or else, might as well put out nothing. If muslims dont like it, they can go destroy more of their cities or just dont plain buy it. Meanwhile. 99.9% of the people dont give a shit.
Eckkovoid nightsinner This is where you guys get it wrong: No one NEEDs to be sensitive to anything. But understanding and respecting even a minority's point of view is a kindness that doesn't cost a dime.
Concerning the game, COD is a game that focuses on killing people, not on Islam. If it were a game that focused on dissing Islam, I wouldn't have given a shit, putting religion in it is an act that is completely unnecesary. The guy was just cursing at a prophet of a major religion, based on his ignorance, much like the Nazis who depicted Jews with big noses. That was one of the reasons the world hated them, so whats so wrong in dissing this moron?
U c the difference between u and them is that u dont have a problem insulting their prophet or religion. On the other hand they never insult other peoples religion. When have they ever burned the bible? When have they ever made an insulting movie about Jesus? The answer is never.
Instead of seeing things from their point of view u simply say ?yes its an insult to ur religion get over it? isnt that kindda like saying ?I dont seek peace, I seek war?
Ur comment does not say anything except ?Im a hateful ignorant person?
This is a reply to all of u who say ?Yes its an insult to ur religion get over it?
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