[ April 24, 2024 ]
The latest version of a video game known as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) has become the focus of controversy after Muslims have grown enraged and complained about how it supposedly encourages “idol worship.” And true to form for practically the entire world these days, when faced with this rage, the game developers caved and revised the game. Everyone has decided that the best thing to do in the face of intimidation from Muslims is give them everything they want, and so that’s what happened in this case.
OpIndia reported Wednesday that “the controversy erupted after PUBG released a new feature titled ‘Mysterious Jungle’, which triggered a backlash in Islamic societies for allegedly pushing forms ‘idol worshipping.’” It seems that “the online game PUBG Mobile had released a latest ‘Mysterious Jungle’ mode and it is reported to be exclusive to the ‘Sanhok’ map. The reason for the outrage was due to a feature present in the new update where players can pray in front of a totem in order to restore their health.”
Muslims reacted predictably. They did not dismiss this as “only a game” or alternatively, issue warnings to Muslim parents that the game contained un-Islamic elements and should not be purchased. Instead, “many Muslim players took it as an insult to their religion as idol worship is prohibited in Islam. The took to Twitter to slam the creators of PUBG for promoting idol worshipping and asked fellow Muslims to uninstall PUBG. Another user asked Muslims to uninstall PUBG, if he was a true Muslim.”
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This rage was based on the idea that the game involved dangerous temptations for Muslim children: “a number of preachers from the Middle East had also warned against the recently released PUBG update, in which players appear worshipping idols. The preachers had demanded authorities to act swiftly to save children from these concepts.” Dr. Bassam Al Shatti, Professor of faith at the College of Sharia, Kuwait University, said that PUBG had “violated Islamic beliefs regarding prostration and bowing to idols, and this is the greatest sin in Islam because prostrating and bowing is worship and glorification solely and exclusively to Almighty Allah.”
Al Shatti explained that children who played the game could become “addicted” to polytheism: “The special draw of gaming that makes it the preferred pastime of so many millions of kids and adults is not just entertainment, it is dangerous because it teaches them polytheism, so they prefer it and become addicted to it.”
Another Muslim academic, Dr. Rashid Al Alimi, Professor at the College of Basic Education, “added that these games are dangerous for Muslims since they can create generations who do not know Tawhid or the defining doctrine of Islam, which declares absolute monotheism – the unity and uniqueness of Almighty Allah as the creator and sustainer of the universe.”
And Dr. Aref Bin Mazyad Al Suhaimi, Professor of Faith in the College of Da’wah and Fundamentals of Religion at the Islamic University in Saudi Arabia, added: “Islam promotes tolerance, balance, equality, consensus, reformism, and all things that take the middle path to materialise the best interest of people. So Sharia permits games that have a preponderant interest, such as shooting, racing, swimming, horse riding, etc.” But not, needless to say, idolatry.
Uninstalling the game and calling upon Muslims to avoid it was one thing, but in this case the Muslim rage mob succeeded in getting the game revised for everyone. Now the supposed temptation to idol worship has been removed for all the players, not just Muslms. Players who might actually have liked that feature are out of luck; they can’t muster a rage mob nearly as large or as threatening as those who hated the feature could.
And so once again the principle is reinforced: when Muslims (or Leftists, as we are seeing everywhere lately) are enraged about something, give them what they want. The whole world seems to have decided that the proper response to intimidation with the implication of violence behind it is to give in. This will only encourage more intimidation, but no one seems to mind. The same thing happened after the jihad attack at the Muhammad art exhibit and cartoon contest that Pamela Geller and I hosted in 2015: all the intelligentsia, the renowned TV talking heads, rounded upon Pamela Geller and rebuked her for exercising the freedom of speech, when everyone knows that the proper response to Muslim threats is to kowtow.
Everyone knows that. Everyone does it. The problem, there keep on being more demands. And now those who do the demanding know this tactic works. Will all this end anywhere short of the full adoption of Sharia in the West? Only if someone in power decides that there will be no more surrender, no more capitulation, to Muslim and Leftist demands. We’re still waiting for that person.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 19 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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33 Comments
3 years ago
If mohammedans are so against idol worship, what’s the black rock in sodomy barbaria all about?
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
It’s Perfectly OK for ‘muslums’ not only Sodomize, but also Rape, Mutilate or Kill non-believers, of course. Those are things they do best. And ENJOY. They just never thought to create MORE black rocks.
3 years ago
Reply to
Curt
In Europe they catch them all the time with violent videos on their cell phones as entertainment. When they eat together they share them. They really get off on this stuff. It’s an Islamic aphrodisiac. The more brutal they are and the one inflicting it, is revered all the more. It inspires them. For normal people this would repulse them and take away their appetite
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Never use the term “people” when referencing moslems, the vilest of ALL creatures.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Geneticists and biologists would disagree with you there. Hitler was like that about Jews.
3 years ago
Reply to
Tatiana Covington
Recent discoveries have found that moslems (the vilest of ALL creatures) are the descendants of the cross-breeding of monkeys with pigs.
Do a search on DNA and moslems.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
That’s what Muslims themselves often say about Jews. Further, cell biology is just not that far along.
3 years ago
Reply to
Tatiana Covington
If moslems (the vilest of ALL creatures) say that about Jews, what’s wrong with a human being saying that about them?
3 years ago
Reply to
Tatiana Covington
Fake science, perhaps. But actual science says otherwise.
A moslem is the vilest of ALL creatures.
End of story.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
That little black meteorite was embedded in the wall of the Kabbalah centuries before Mohammad appeared on the scene. It worship is pure idolatry. In fact,there is not even a pretense that people not worship as a Haj to mecca and worship of the little black meteorite is required of all Muslims.
3 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
It’s a meteorite? I was under the impression that it was a pile of fossilized excrement.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Bill Warner describes it as a possible meteorite in his book on Mohammad, although I think your description is far more accurate.
3 years ago
“Islam promotes tolerance, balance, equality” WHAT? LOL PLEASE….
3 years ago
Reply to
Huskystar
It’s hard to imagine someone saying that with a straight face but as the muslum book Reliance of the Traveler states: smile to their faces while you curse them in your hearts.
3 years ago
How can that be?
LOL
3 years ago
Reply to
Curt
Well, it looks like that they have a sense of humor after all, a sick one, that is !!!!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
If you believe this, I have a bridge for sale in the Bronx, and ocean front land for sale in Switzerland,
3 years ago
If you don’t like what’s in the game, don’t play it. Very simple. Don’t expect the rest of the world to bend a knee to your whims. Oh, wait…
What next, white people bowing to blacks for forgiveness? Oh, wait…
3 years ago
Creeping Sharia? No Way. Full blown Sharia. Die infidels, die! As the pedophile “prophet” marches on…
3 years ago
We’re killing ourselves all in the name of multiculturalism and diversity. Glad I’m old.
3 years ago
Keep bowing to muslims and islam and soon you will be owned by those POS feral animal criminals!!!!!!
3 years ago
Nothing to do with politics as it is all about money.They cannot dare upset 1.4 billion muslims most of whom will probably torrent it anyway.
3 years ago
Muslims Enraged Over……Everything. As Usual. Film at 11……
3 years ago
Ever hear the saying, “Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.”?
With the Muslims, it’s, “Agree to any of their disingenuous demands and they’ll take everything.”
Too bad this video game developer was so ignorant of Islam & Muslims or he’d know that and would have laughed at their claim to being enraged.
3 years ago
We also have had a @POTUS44 who was intolerant of non-popular ideas or beliefs to the point that he tried to exclude them from the Public discourse. Remember, he told scientists to “shun” their colleagues who didn’t support the theory of Climate Warming, Change and basically push them out of respectability from their discipline.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jack
They were already well trained in doing that anyway, the ClimateGate emails indicated they were up to that crap long before Obamallah was sworn in.
3 years ago
In terms of acceptability to Muslims based upon their Religion, Islam and the Sharia, I can empathize. They have their Right to complain, boycott and stop using. However their intolerance towards all things they perceive as non- Islamic or guided by Sharia is BS. The #OIC passed at the @UN a Resolution that is #Anti-Islamophobia that addresses many issues about defaming Islam but Muslims have no problem disparaging Non-Muslims, killing non-Muslims in the name of Allah and Mohamad. They have no tolerance for other Religions or Secularism. As such they’ve learned that in Civilized Societies if they don’t get their way through the legal system all they need to do is beat their chests, scream, act crazy, and threaten It’s time to stop being a push over.
