Sony yanks LBP: ‘offensive to Muslims’
p2pnet news view | Games:- Sony touts LittleBIGPlanet as a unique PS3 game, “combining platform adventure with a huge community enabling gamers to play, create & share their experiences”.
Featuring Sackboy (Yup 
) and designed to reinvigorate Sony’s moribund Playstation, it was officially due out on October 24.
But, sigh, “Millions of copies of Little Big Planet have been withdrawn from warehouses after lines from the Koran were found to be included in the accompanying music,” says The Telegraph.
It was developed as The Next Big Thing as a puzzle platformer and world creation video game for the PlayStation 3, says the Wikipedia, going on it was the brainchild of Media Molecule, a UK company founded in part by Rag Doll Kung Fu creator Mark Healey.
But it was yanked, “faster than you can say ‘cartoons of the prophet Muhammed’ from shops worldwide, as Muslim game forums fumed one of the background music tracks contained two sentences from the Koran,” says The Enquirer, continuing:
“The ‘offensive’ song in question is sung by a devout Muslim, freely available on Itunes and has never before drawn criticism. But Muslim gamers are apparently deeply offended and insist that mixing music and words from Islam’s most holy text is not fair game.
“The words include ‘kollo nafsin tha’ikatol mawt’, or: ‘Every soul shall have the taste of death’ and ‘kollo man alaiha fan’: ‘All that is on earth will perish.’
“Sony immediately fell to its knees and groveled in apology for any offence caused while sniveling that a version of the game without the background song would be released next month.”
Adds the story:
“Manzoor Moghal, a member of the Muslim Forum think-tank, told the BBC his organisation complimented Sony ‘for taking decisive action by withdrawing these games immediately, and releasing a version that is not offensive to Muslims’.”
LBP will be reissued on October 27, sans offending lyrics.
The Telegraph – Sony Playstation game Little Big Planet delayed after anti-Muslim claims, October 20, 2008
The Enquirer – Sony recalls game after music offends Muslims, October 21, 2008
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October 21st, 2008 at 9:42 am
Before I go out and write a 10-page rant here, can anybody check a fact for me? To the best of my knowledge, I’m not aware of any other incident like this with any other religion (where the mixing or use of holy scripture was complained about and a game yanked due to it).
October 21st, 2008 at 11:03 am
That’s because other religions don’t car-bomb you over stuff like this. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with Muslims. . .right?
October 21st, 2008 at 11:58 am
Sony is a pack of couard bending down on few Islamist extremists!
The Islamist extremists sadly enought show us how to deal with these bullies:
Terrorize them back and they we leave the people alone.
Let’s terrorize the terrorists! It does not matter if their name is Ben Laden, Cary Sherman or Gilman.
They are all terrorists and should be treated as such.
Let send them to Gatanamo instead of persecuting and torturing innocent iraquis and Afgan who have not done anything to us.
Always the good guys get victimized because they are easier to catch than the g uilties.
90% of the people locked in Guatanamo have nothing to do with El-Quada or the Talibans nor were they even engaged in defending their country.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
“But hey, thereâs nothing wrong with Muslims. . .right?”
This is not about the Muslim this is about the extremists and the terrorists. Most Muslim are none of the above.
The Coran is almost identical to the Bible and the New testament. All these religions are tightly related.
Each of these religion have their own extremists.
If theiy pretend to be Muslim we call them Islamist integrist. If they pretend to be Jew we call them Sionsits. And if they pretend to be Christian we call them evangelical.
They all have two things in comon: They are NOT what they claim to be because they don’t follow their respective books and they certainly don’t belong among us whatever our religions might be.
They belong in prison together and can kill each others if they want too so that the rest of us can leave in peace. Together!
October 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Watch Religulous, guys!
There are still too many people who believe in tales from questionable sources.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
âEvery soul shall have the taste of deathâ and âAll that is on earth will perish.â ?
Well, at least they picked some of the lighter bits of the Koran to include. Jeez… Kind of creepy actually.
Does anybody know what the song in question is, and/or know of a link to a translation?
October 27th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Reader’s Write Says:
October 21st, 2008 at 11:58 am
God… I love coming to this site and reading the news away from the fanboy-ridden meme filled rest of the internet, but you people need to come here and ruin it all, dont you? Sony did NOT pull the game, Media Molecule did.
And a message to James-
1. The original release date for LBP was October 21st, not the 24th. This is when i received my copy from the place that i work.
2. “âSony immediately fell to its knees and groveled in apology for any offence caused while sniveling that a version of the game without the background song would be released next month.â”
This is the single most biased thing i have read on this site that doesn’t involve your strange hatred toward what is – in my opinion – the greatest computer in existence. Yes, the Mac.
They “Fell to their knees”? Come on. They have NOT apologized for any of this, nor have they even said any words involving it. Anything said was said by Media Molecule, not Sony.
3. The new release date is not October 27th, it is the 28th. Just lettin’ ya know.
As you can probably tell, i am a rather large fan of this game. Being in the beta and literally leaving my Playstation 3 on for days after the beta had ended just to continue playing was by far the greatest experiences in the gaming world that i have ever had in my life, and i just don’t see how this info that you are posting is correct in any way. Wherever you are getting your info from is obviously incorrect.
Thanks, and sorry for complaining. I know you have the whole lawsuite and whatnot – and of course life – but i just felt the need to say this long rant.