LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio

Several readers have pointed out that Sony's much-awaited LittleBigPlanet has hit a snag and will be delayed worldwide. The delay came after it was discovered that a song licensed for use in the soundtrack contained audio samples from the Qur'an. All advanced copies sent to retailers for the target release of October 21 in North America, 22 in PAL territories, and 24 in the UK and Ireland, have been recalled. "The post, by user 'Solid08', indicates of the specific references in the composition: 'In the 18th second: "kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt", literally: "Every soul shall have the taste of death' ... almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "kollo man alaiha fan", literally: "All that is on earth will perish."'"

Comments

Re:So what?

[shutdown -p now]

The difference is very simple.

Pretty much all violent religious extremists and their supporters (both open and tacit) are fundamentalists in their particular religion. In the Christian world, fundamentalists constitute a tiny minority. In the Islamic world, fundamentalism is the mainstream, and liberal Muslims are shunned and persecuted.

So, yes, I will stand by the implication that "Muslims in general" - by which I mean the majority of those considering themselves Muslims worldwide - are either directly engaging in violence on religious grounds, or encouraging others to do so (you've seen the results of all those "let's introduce Shari'a Law here" polls, right?), or at least not outright condemning those who do so.

400 years ago, the Christian Western world had the same problem. But not anymore. We got over it, and that means that so can they, and pointing out that the Islamic world is not there yet is not bigotry - it's a plain assertion of fact.

Re:Peace

[Darkness404]

That is quite an important (and occasionally overlooked) point; the most dangerous people in the world are those with nothing left to lose.

But why are they poor? Surely it isn't because they force ~50% of the population (women) to wear veils in public, forbid them from having any rights, etc. All the the while "electing" and supporting violent leaders who do most of their crimes in the name of Islam. Nope, can't be any connection between poverty and Islam.