LittleBigPlanet delay the 'right thing to do,' says Phil Harrison

My sentiments exactly. Way to play off quaking in your boots over fear of Muslim extremists as making the game be one "for the entire world".

I wonder if he draws a lot of flies with all the crap that he's talking.

Religious intolerance is fun, isn't it?

It's what 'Merica was built on.

You're all morons.

"'Merica" was built on the concept of freedom from religious oppression. You know, like the kind that Muslim extremists are famous for.

(Though that wasn't exactly the case here, just sayin')

Nice level of tolerence in the above posts, don't forget to vote for Hitler/Stalin/McCain next month.

Now I know that political corectness and appeasement can do more harm than good in some cases, but not this one.

whats wrong with showing a bit of compassion towards our fellow inhabitants of this (little big) planet now and then?

We're built on Intolerance of Intolerance you hypocritical dick.

"giving in is never the right thing to do."

I take it you aren't married.

Merica was built on Native burial grounds.

@5th hot meal

"Nice level of tolerence in the above posts, don't forget to vote for Hitler/Stalin/McCain next month."

If you honestly believe McCain doesn't love this country you are a fool. People who serve in our military do so because they believe preserving our ideals is more important than their own lives. This doesn't apply only to McCain, it applies to everyone past and present, including John Kerry and the VP's kids (not W. though, he ducked out of his duties).

Even if you don't agree with his policies, you have to at least respect him. You saying McCain is the same as Hitler is just as stupid as someone saying Obama is a terrorist. Both candidates are running because they feel their vision is what America needs; its a matter of opinion as to which is "right"

"Now I know that political corectness and appeasement can do more harm than good in some cases, but not this one."

I fail to see how this is worse than say any other offensive thing that has occurred in the recent past. Things that come to mind are the depiction of women in most video games (DoA comes to mind), depiction of enemies in most games (Arabs in CoD4, Germans and Japanese in WWII games, etc.), and depiction of most stereotypes in tv (Sopranos, Boondocks, Chappelle Show, etc.).

America is about the freedom to say or do what you want as long as it doesn't infringe upon the freedom of others. YOU have the freedom to call McCain a fascist without persecution. I can either ignore you or attempt to make you see my view, but I can't threaten you to change your ways.

If it offends you that much, protest it and convince other people not to buy it (think Spore). A company should not back down because of an interest group.

McCain may have served time in the military, but then so have millions of other Americans. Not to downplay what he did or disrespect him. I just hope there aren't people voting for him over Obama just because McCain served in the military and Obama didn't. I'm sure there are people who will do that, but that really shouldn't surprise me.
Anyway, what Sony did with LBP was done simply to avoid lawsuits and bad PR, which would result in a loss of money. That's the bottom line in all of these decisions, all the damn time: money. Don't you ever forget that Sony is a large corporation bent on making the most money whenever possible.

"A company should not back down because of an interest group."

Depends. A company is a business and in most cases they'll do what they think is good for business. It seems most here have lost sight of that.

Yes, any jackass who gets his political views from "Family Guy" is really the kind of person we should listen to.

Hitler/Stalin/McCain? Because he doesn't pitch irresponsible spending, ass-backwards foreign policy, and socialism? Get your head out of your ass, Obamaniac.

Bass -

George Bush has done more to socialize American than Obama is even proposing. Not to mention we are now 50 republics under the fascist rule of King George Bush.

Don't forget that mcCain was in favor of the bailout and also wants to offer similar programs to Obama in terms of healthcare.

McCain may have rallied the base with his pick of Palin but picking her will cost him the election in the end.

I hate to tell you this, but Obama not only favored the bailout, he wanted to spend MORE money to buy homes from the idiots who defaulted.

George Bush didn't do more to socialize America than anyone else. Until the market collapse, which was the result of DEMOCRATIC MEDDLING IN THE MORTGAGE MARKET, the economy BOOMED under Bush. Now you clever people want to pretend it was all Republicans and hand the country over to the party who screwed us. Brilliant. Keep watching Family Guy, and listening to Madonna's "political speeches".

No, they go out and look for things to be offended by.

;)
LOOOOL

Extremists suck.

This is the fucking internet.There are no holy cows here and every other religion would get as much flak if they pulled off shit like this.

In fact Christianity would get an enormously bigger backlash as ever since the terrorist-attacks (once again - Bunch of fucked up extrimists), Islam has a magical "We will appease you and censor everything, please don't burn our country down" shield that lets them get off anything.

Think about what would happen to other religions if they tried shit like arresting and proposing to execute a British schoolteacher for naming the class's teddy bear "Muhammad" or the infamous cartoon controversy.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_teddy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy

You're a jackass. Nobody is 'raging on Muslims', we are raging on the stupid Western world's fear of Muslim extremism. As long as you treat crazy people with kid gloves they will continue to act like idiots.

Wait, I'd reinstate my opinion because I don't want to come off as a hypocrite in any future discussion.

The Cartoons Controversy was justified as it mocked Muhammed and was racist.The authors tried to pass it off as "freedom of speech" despite the fact that stuff like Blackface or Nazi references would be instantly banned due to racism, revealing this huge double standard.So in a way they've won the debate as Muslims had all the right to be pissed off about it.I still think the death threats and extremists rioting was a bad thing to do, but that's a different story.

As for Teddy and LBP controversy, they're still retarded.

Hinduism is the religion with holy cows not Islam you ignorant fuck.

@ Emophilia

Quoted from Wikipedia:

"Metaphorical sacred cows

The term sacred cow has passed into the English language to mean an object or practice which is considered immune from criticism, especially unreasonably so."

Who's the "ignorant fuck" now? Stop jumping onto conclusions.

"The Cartoon Controversy was justified"? What the fuck is wrong with you? Rioting in the streets, burning cars and buildings, and killing people - you think that's justified because someone took offense at a CARTOON?

Every day someone publishes a cartoon mocking Christian beliefs, and nobody gets killed. There are COUNTLESS cartoons showing Bush being lynched; as ThePeoplesCube points out, if you carried a lynched effigy of Obama you'd be accused of a hate crime.

It's ALL offensive. That's the point. We supposedly live in a world that respects the marketplace of ideas, the RIGHT of someone to offend someone else. You can complain about it, but no matter how offensive you find it, you don't have the right to bomb someone, shoot someone, stab someone, burn someone, or any of that other bullshit you're implicitly validating.

I have to wonder how you arrive at your idiotic world view. Is it cowardice? Are you so afraid of taking a stand that you'll let people walk all over you?

"Rioting in the streets, burning cars and buildings, and killing people - you think that's justified because someone took offense at a CARTOON?"

I think you misunderstood me.

I never said that violence was okay as any kind of violence caused by religion is simply absurd.

I didn't say it was okay for Muslims to start killing people.I said it was okay for Muslims to be offended.

Muslims didn't get offended because of pictures of Muhammad ,these cartoons simply racist(One of them has shown Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse) and implied that all who believe in Islam are terrorists.The entire controversy was about what-looks-like-racism-to-me-and-a-lot-of-other-people against what-the-newspaper-calls-freedom-of-speech.

This does not justify anything that happened, but as I said, Muslims had all right to be insulted in that case, which is why I decided not to group it with the incidents involving a certain Teddy Bear and a certain Video Game as these are simply retarded.

You mean Lexington Steele lied to us?!

tl;dr

http://bornandbreded.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/plug.jpg

:P

the right thing to do was to release it the way the developers intended and just offer a patch for those few that are offended.

/patched for offensive material

No Muslim leaders asked for it to be removed, though. It was a lone guy on the Playstation forums, who later apologised, saying he hadn't expected Sony to delay the game.

oh... I thought some muslim guy was making comments on tv though? perhaps that is aftermath.

Yeah, a Muslim priest dude afterwards congratulated Sony for their actions. It might be that that you're thinking of.

A different Muslim group said it was a stupid thing to do: http://www.edge-online.com/features/muslim-group-condemns-lbp-%E2%80%9Ccensorship%E2%80%9D?page=0%2C1

I especially liked this part:
"Muslims cannot benefit from freedom of expression and religion and then turn around and ask that anytime their sensibilities are offended that the freedom of others be restricted."

What's sad is that the US has the potential to be a great place for mainstream Muslims to practice their religion, but it's stunts like this with LBP that piss people off and make them less willing to accept practitioners of Islam.

I pray by the Lords of Kobal that you are right.

November 4th is a good beginning for taking back this formerly SECULAR country from the Xtian right. But we have a Loooooooooooooooooong way to go b4 we stop holding one idea of God(s) above another which many times leads to the dehumanizing of certain ideas or cultures which brings some to commit the despicable acts of in-humanity over who's God(s) can beat up another God(s).

Why can't we just worship or NOT worship whatever invisible man we want to in PEACE. Why can't we be TOLERANT of other ideas? Why can't we find out for ourselves the true nature of the Universe instead of beLIEving a 2000 year old group of stories that have been picked apart and changed to serve countless power-grabs by the Old Men in Robes.

I am human, I am alive.

mayan long count
i-ching & time wave zero
countless prophicies
computer spiders
bible code
global warming & global dimming
chem trails
huge spike in autism
invisible waves poisinig our mind and bodies
chemicals in our food and animals
world war and conflicts
disease
population is gorwing to fast
genocide
honeybees dissappearing

2012 is coming sooner than we all think ... the poles will shift is what I think ... our society is out of tune with nature and the cycles of the natural earth ...

maybe because Resistance:FOM was already released for sale and in gamer's homes for several days/weeks/months before it became in issue for the Church vs. an unreleased game?

Did I mention the magical "Ima burn down yo country" shield?

Ah but you're missing the point. No religion deserves tolerance and complete acceptance. However Islam has some of the most bat shit insane ones. As such people who are afraid of them are forced to take any crazy demand they make seriously.