Islamic Conference Has 'Faith Fighter' Game Pulled from Internet

by Tina Kells | April 28, 2009 at 03:28 pm

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After pressure from the Islamic Conference a controversial web game called Faith Fighter has been pulled from the Internet. The Saudi Arabia based Islamic Conference argued that Faith Fighter was anti-Islamic and anti-Christian as it rallied for removal from the web.

Faith Fighter was an online game that pitted great leaders of world faiths fighting in combat against one another. The religious figures battled as cities burned in the background. The Christian God fights with lightning bolts while the Muslim Muhammad uses black meteorites to crush his opponents.

No religion was safe and most major faiths were represented in the game but the Islamic Conference chose to single it out as being specifically anti-Christian and anto-Muslim over the portrayals of the Gods of these two faiths.

Jesus, the Prophet Muhammad, Buddha, God and the Hindu god Ganesh were all included as game avatar choices.

"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," an OIC statement said.

Game designer Molleindustria told the Associated Press the game, 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 in an e-mail message. "So if a respectable organization didn't understand the irony and the message, we failed."

Islamic law generally opposes physical depictions of the prophet.