Molleindustria’s Faith Fighter Game Taken Offline

Game designer Molleindustria withdraw its controversial internet game Faith Fighter following a demand by the Organization of Islamic Countries that it be taken offline.

The game, which has been around for over a year, depicts caricatures of Jesus, the Prophet Mohammed, Buddha, God and the Hindu god Ganesh fighting each other.

From the Daily Mail: The Saudi-based Organisation of the Islamic Conference demanded the game be taken offline and said it did nothing to increase religious tolerance.

In the game religious figures fight each other against a backdrop of burning buildings. In one scene, God attacks with bolts of lighting and pillars of fire while the turbaned Muhammad can summon a burning black meteorite.

The OIC, which represents most Muslim nations, said: ‘The computer game was incendiary in its content and offensive to Muslims and Christians. … The game would serve no other purpose than to incite intolerance.’

But game designer Molleindustria said Faith Fighter, which had been around for more than a year and played millions of times, was misunderstood, but had been removed.

‘This was meant to be a game against intolerance and against the one-way Islamophobic satire of the Danish Muhammad cartoons,’ Molleindustria said. ‘So if a respectable organisation didn’t understand the irony and the message, we failed.’

The game had been around for a while, but the the OIC was responding to an article in British publication Metro, which stated the game had offended religious groups.

‘We suspect that people at OIC never played carefully the game and only referred to the article on Metro UK that successfully manufactured this controversy,’ said Molleindustria.

In a statement on its website, where the game can be found, Molleindustria said the intention was not to be offensive to any religion.

‘Its aim is to push the gamers to reflect on how the religious and sacred representations are often instrumentally used to fuel or justify conflicts between nations and people,’ it said.

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