JEDDAH: The creator of the Faith Fighter online video game depicting religious figures such as the Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Jesus (peace be upon them) fighting each other said yesterday it has withdrawn the game after a Muslim protest. The game is “incendiary in its content and offensive to Muslims and Christians,” a spokesman for the Jeddah-based Islamophobia Observatory of the Organization of the Islamic Conference said.
Italian game publisher Molleindustria said on its website: “Today after an official statement from the Organization of Islamic Conference we decided to remove the game Faith Fighter from our site.”
The Observatory spokesman said the game would serve no other purpose than to incite intolerance. He called on the game’s Internet host to take “immediate action” by withdrawing it from the web.
Molleindustria said Faith Fighter was meant to be a game against intolerance that used over-the-top irony and a cartoonish style.
Molleindustria said: “If an established organization didn’t understand the irony and the message of the game and is claiming it is inciting intolerance, we simply failed.”
The game was released more than a year ago.
The OIC has 57 member countries and represents 1.3 billion Muslims.
