To: Sony Computer Entertainment & Media Molecule
While playing your latest game, "LittleBigPlanet" in the first level of the third world in the game (titled "Swinging Safari":smileywink:, I have noticed something strange in the lyrics of the music track of the level. When I listened carefully, I was surprised to hear some very familiar Arabic words from the Quran. You can listen to part of the track here:
mt14.quickshareit.com/share/p...lip22503c0.wav
The words are:
1- In the 18th second: "كل نفس ذائقة الموت" ("kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt", literally: 'Every soul shall have the taste of death').
2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "كل من عليها فان" ("kollo man alaiha fan", literally: 'All that is on earth will perish').
I asked many of my friends online and offline and they heard the exact same thing that I heard easily when I played that part of the track. Certain Arabic hardcore gaming forums are already discussing this, so we decided to take action by emailing you before this spreads to mainstream attention.
We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online patch, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it.
We would also like to mention that this isn't the first time something like this happened in videogames. Nintendo's 1998 hit "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" contained a musical track with islamic phrases, but it was removed in later shipments of the game after Nintendo was contacted by Muslim organizations. Last year, Capcom's "Zack & Wiki" and Activision's "Call of Duty 4" also contained objectionable material offensive to Muslims that was spotted before the release of the final games, and both companies thankfully removed the content.
We hope you act immediately to avoid any confusion and unnecessary controversy, and we thank you for making such an amazing game.
Regards,
yasser
psn id : solid08
Exactly.GreekWolf said:Flying Spaghetti Monster: 1 Reality: 0
Something tells me that including his PSN ID was a baaad idea.EmCeeGramr said:
1- In the 18th second: "كل نفس ذائقة الموت" ("kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt", literally: 'Every soul shall have the taste of death').
2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "كل من عليها فان" ("kollo man alaiha fan", literally: 'All that is on earth will perish').
Aeris130 said:So, you can't say the same sentances that can be found in the Qur'an? Is it a copyright issue? I don't see how those two sentances goes against the Qur'an, or anything else for that matter...
They're just stating the obvious.
MiamiWesker said:WHAT THE FUCK!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!
... WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING IN!!!
no doubt.Danne-Danger said:Something tells me that including his PSN ID was a baaad idea.
Jax said:WHAT THE FUCK. both statements are really extreme with reallyy negative connotations.
?!?!?!
Jax said:WHAT THE FUCK. both statements are really extreme with reallyy negative connotations.
?!?!?!
Easy, tough guy.Cheez-It said:If legit...
Bahahahahahahahahaha
Like a bunch of petulant children.
but mommy, I want it noowww!
DMPrince said:We should go find something religiously offensive in other games that haven't been released yet :lol.
dionysus said:I'd be banned to say what I really think. Excellent that the dude included his PSN ID. I am sure his messge inbox is already full.
harSon said:I'm not an expert but I recall it being blasphemous to erect statues of Islamic figures. I'm guessing this is similar?
Jax said:WHAT THE FUCK. both statements are really extreme with reallyy negative connotations.
?!?!?!
Salmonax said:Easy, tough guy.
Mdk7 said:i have to shut up, it's better not to write what i'm thinking at the moment.
Let's say it's just "SURREAL", Islam is getting really really powerful these days.
Schrade said:What. The. Fuck????? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is so wrong about some phrases from some book? Is it forbidden to utter the phrases or something?