LittleBigPlanet delayed worldwide, Qur'an misuse cited as cause [update]

The reaction it would cause would be very similar to if something offended Fox News. Figures of authority misrepresent things all the time, no matter what their race, religion or nationality might be.

Considering Fable 2 is an xbox360 game and LBP is a PS3 game, I don't think you have a valid argument.

Forgive me for this, but WTF HAGGARD, MAGIC POWERS?

Seriously. Haggard replying to NOTHING is freaking me the hell out.

I'm thinking someone got banned for a comment (to which Haggard replied), and they deleted whatever ignorant, bigoted hatespeech the comment contained.

An even stranger phenomenon than when hitting "Add Comment" sends you to a completely different story

Yeah, the guy sarcastically said that muslims were peaceful, so I responded with a moderate yet cynical riposte.

When I refreshed the page, there it was, hanging mid-air.

I didn't realise that attacking fearmongering racists was grounds to get downvoted, however.

*what he actually said was more along the lines that there'd be strong criticism to it from muslims - sorry if the response above didn't make it clear what my point was.

And when talking about fearmongering racists I meant fox news, not the guy.

*sigh*

It's "withdrawals."

It's my custom to burp at you in gratitude for your compliment.

Quite so, quite so good sir.

dunno what to think about this actually, is it Jihad-tastic or appeasement and PC gone way over the top?

music was great btw

oh well nov 14th is my birthday anyways (nice little nugget of information for all of you ID thieves out there).

Well I assume you live beyond the ocean.

You're not the one dealing with any possible trouble and should they go bat-shit crazy(again), the biggest worry you'll have is whether your telescope will provide you a better sigh of Europe being set on fire by Muslims than the telescope of Smith-the-disliked-snobby-rich-neighbour from the opposite side of the street.

Religion...

Whats its purpose again? Ohh to have "faith and believe"...

For a sec i was lost in thoughts of killing a different religious faction while retaking my homeland with either Sword, Spear, Guns & Bombs...
pffft.
(this is directed to all powers that be, not Islam)

Europe get some balls already...

After those terrorists blew the first one off, we're not taking any chances with the second one!

We do have a pair of balls already. One's called Richard, the other's Dawkins.

@ Dadidito

Us getting some balls? If I recall correctly, we started crusades and burned women on stakes.Is anything more badass than that? Now what did you do - invent political correctness and to this day apologize bl...African-Americans and In...Native Americans for what happened two-three hundred years ago?

Lol, americans are so ignorant. I could go into lots of detail explaining about different cultures, different custums... but you wouldn't take it in, bloody idiots.

@Jakka:

Well, from what I recall it was EUROPE that instigated the whole African slavery trade. It was EUROPE that so many of the American colonists fled from to get away from the unjust laws and prosecution of your kings and nobles against religion, personal rights, and freedom. It was Britian that tried to unjustly "taxation without representation". It was US, the American Colonies, that declared war against the British not once but TWICE and beat them back both times. I think this qualifies us as having more "balls" than you. Learn your history, buddy, it wasn't strictly America that had slavery - everyone had a piece of that pie.

That said, Europe needs to calm the eff down. Religion is supposed to make you feel closer to God and give you a reason to believe that there is more beyond this life. For some reason people seem to also assume that means speeding up your exit from this life. No! Stop! Give everyone LBP and let everyone have fun!

@Jakka

Which is exactly why i feel that. I majored in European History. I have nothing but respect and a deep fascination with Old Europe. But in the last 15 years Europe has become a continent losing its once very proud identity in my opinion. Appeasing your exploding (imported) immigrants is not going to creat harmony but a loss of European ideals and culture. The home of civil liberties, forward thinkers, great leaders, brave adventurers should not be worried about everything offending the Muslim or any other community at every turn. Feelings are bound to get hurt when religion comes into play but the extremes that some in the muslim community go to have made it difficult to justify. Europe has had its shares of horrors, as we have here in the U.S. but we still are open societies that welcome all. Problem is that new comers are not blending into your society and are evidently creating two Europes. I say stand up for what you are and once were. I don't mean go and be like us. That is not what Europe is, but don't be a society that bends at the will of a very VOCAL minority at the expense of the community as a whole. My 2 cents.

This just in:

LBP delay is worldwide.

I don't know, I think this is a very valid reason to delay the game, although it is fixable through an online patch.

If Islam forbids things such as picturing Mohammed, or using verses of the Quran in music, that should be respected. It's an innocent oversight by Sony, and I'm sure they're treating it with some urgency.

No matter what your views on Islam or religion, I don't think anybody can justify saying we should just ignore their wishes and treat them with no respect. Where do you draw the line? Do you start making the assasination of MLK Jr a mission in a game? Do you add Rosa Parks to PAIN?

It would be absurd to do anything like that, and it would be (perhaps not quite as) absurd to knowingly disrespect the Islamic community. It's not about what you do, it's about how it's seen.

In all fairness, Africans started slavery. Tribes conquered other tribes and subjugated them long before the foreign intervention. European traders merely gave them a greater incentive once they started offering to buy the conquered as for export. Europeans would have had a hard time navigating the jungles to successfully capture whole villages, but the native Africans were very adept at it. Without a willingness to sell out their own people, slavery never would have gotten as big as it got. So it wasn't just white men who were doing bad things back then.

In fact, the whole "blacks are inferior" thing was fueled by the way these conquering chieftains treated the chattle they trafficked. They sold them as inferior/substandard beings, and that attitude carried over the ocean, but there was no victorious black groups to act as a counterpoint, so many people started thinking that all black weren't really people. A truly unfortunate chain of events, to be sure. The sad thing is, while things are getting better in the rest of the world, this still goes on in Africa (not all of Africa, mind you), though without a large-scale global market, more people are killed instead of captured because a tribe can only take so many prisoners before it is over-run itself.

I love how Americans seem to think Europe is one country.

Update: Worldwide delay? This game just got worse.

I am always against giving in to religious fundamentalists. Don't go blaming others for breaking rules you made up for yourself.

Couldn't agree more. However, If this was a quote from any other religions text, it would still be in the game. That's the sad part.

Huh, that link didn't turn out right.

Anyway, no matter. I see what I meant to link to is already in the main article (the third source).

It's a Muslim gamer asking for Sony to patch the song out of the game.

Yeah, but that's ok, because offending Christians is fine. Offending Muslims isn't allowed. :eyeroll:

There's that "peaceful religion" preaching at you again!

Hey stupids. It means nothing lasts forever. I'm not even a muslim.

Its ironic that American people are telling us Europeans to grow a pair about Religion sensitivity and that we are afraid of Muslim people....Peoples memories must be very short indeed.....

Considering America is populated by a bunch of christians and jews (look, I can be ignorant too) you clearly don't understand the idea of islam. Their religion is their life, the qur'an is their holy book and when it's being mistreated in any way, this time in a song, then they aren't going to just sit back and let it happen. The qur'an is sacred to them. Nevermind though, you already sound like too much of an ignorant asshole to understand any of this.

First of all, the US is not populated by Jews. They make up only 2% of the population. And I do clearly understand Islam, that is why I think Europe needs to grow a pair. It is written in the Qur'an that the infidels needs to either convert to Islam or be destroyed. Granted not all Muslims take this literally, but many do. Look at what happened when Islam was insulted in a Dutch newspaper. Many European Muslims took to the streets and became very violent, a reaction that is unacceptable in European culture. Most British Muslims (yes most) want Sharia Law implemented for themselves, which often times contradicts British law. They have no respect for the laws of the land and cultures they have joined. They want everyone to bow down to their culture or face dire consequences. Now imagine a game were to insult the Pope. Would there be protest and backlash? Most certainly. Would you be in fear that the Catholics will blow up your mass transit systems over such a thing? Of course not. None the less this is a game and the buyer has the option to purchase the game if they want to or not. Media Molecule might have decided to take it out due to there own ethics which I can understand, it just seems increasingly the case that you have to worry about how mass media deals with Islam. Oh well it was delayed in North America too.

+1

That was very deep..........WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH WRE!!!!!

The problem is that, for the most part, the leaders of the Islamic religion, have it set up that any offense towards their religion will typically coincide with death and violence (while this could be said for many religions, the difficulty is that this is with the powers that be.) It is the equivalent to having the pope say that it is perfectly fine, and that you would be doing a favor for god, by killing Marylin Manson or something like that.