Muslim Massacre game offline

Perhaps after all the recent press, Muslim Massacre has been exposed to enough traffic to send it crashing to the ground.

Should Muslim Massacre be banned?

Muslim Massacre

What's your take?

I'm not surprised.

Allow me to pull a Rupert Goodwins and offend an entire religious group right here.

No.

No it absolutely shouldn't.

I am NOT CONDONING IT, however, freedom of speech protects everything. Even things considered distasteful.

To be honest I find that said religious group are offended easily in the first place to be honest. But then that probably applies to society as a whole nowadays.

No, it's just that when we make an honest criticism, they end up going insane.

For example, there is a book coming out which accused the prophet of Islam of being a paedophile. Now, their argument lies on someone called Aisha who was 6 or 7 at the time she was married to the Prophet of Islam, and the marriage was consummated at the age of 9.

This book was dropped from it's publishers after a stink was kicked up. It now has another publisher. One with the balls to defend someone's freedom of speech and expression from islamofascists.

People should not have their freedom of speech trampled on, because of one religious group getting butthurt, and it seems any genuine criticism is usually genuinely drowned out with death threats and burnings of embassies.

Just look at the death threats sent to Pat Condell!

Sigh. Thank god for atheism.

True. Although i've had some debates with some Catholics (Which were pretty clean as far as i'm concerned) and when I came up with something that they couldn't counter they claimed to be "butthurt" and asked for the thread to be locked, which it was. Hence why I said "society as a whole", because a lot of people seem to cry and moan over some stupid things nowadays. But I agree with your point.

Pun intended? =P

Let me just share with you something personal.

I used to be a catholic, who interpreted the bible in a semi-literal form. I saw the New Testament as a literal truth. I was homophobic, bigoted and largely anti-sex. For example, I saw contraception as the moral equivalent as murder. Yes. Using a condom = murder.

Thankfully, I left that insane religion, and now I am happier, freer and a generally better person than I was.

But, the point is, religion makes people who are otherwise good do bad things.

Furthermore, it makes them impervious to reason, as I was.

But, back to Islam. A lot of the criticism levied against it was aimed at the violent aspects of it. For example, the Mohammed Cartoons made fun of Mohammed being a violent individual (See, the battle of Badr). The end result was burned embassies, terror and violence.

Also, this.

Please note, I am for freedom of religion, and I do not hate Muslims. Some of my friends are liberal muslims. I do however support my right to criticise it, which I exercise frequently.

But, with regards to the game. That is just Xenophobia and irrational hatred.

No, It's racism. Pure and simple. But it ought to be defended at all costs, even if it is abhorrent.

I completely disagree, sure some people are crazy bigoted assholes but on the whole most religious people are descent and nice. If people interpreted their religious message as it was meant, ie to love humanity etc, that would be fine but its only people who use a vail of religion to disguise a "bad" ideological viewpoint that make good people bad eg. the taliban

Matthew, there's a Georage Carlin quote you'd like

As for myself, I believe in Richard Dawkins.