Pakistan Boycotting Call of Duty, Medal of Honor Games

An anonymous reader writes "As first-person shooters have evolved, they've transitioned from using Nazis as the bad guys to more modern organizations, such as the Taliban. Two recent games, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Medal of Honor: Warfighter, have both shown the country of Pakistan in a very negative light, and now shopkeepers in the country are beginning to boycott the games. 'Saleem Memon, president of the All Pakistan CD, DVD, Audio Casette Traders and Manufacturers Association, said he had written to members ordering them not to stock the controversial games after receiving dozens of complaints. ... The latest installment of the Medal of Honor series opens with American Navy Seals coming ashore in Karachi docks on a mission to destroy a black market arms shipment. But when their detonation sets off a second, bigger explosion they realize they have stumbled on a much bigger terrorist plot, sparking a global manhunt. A chaotic car chase through the city follows amid warnings that the ISI — Pakistan's intelligence agency — is on the way. Mr. Memon added there was a danger children would be brainwashed into thinking foreign agents were at war inside Karachi, possibly leading them into the arms of militants. "These games show a misleading idea of what is happening in the city. You don't get the CIA all the way through Grand Theft Auto," he said.'"

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Fuck You Too Muslim Extremists

[l0ungeb0y]

Pakistan is the most lawless of the US' so called "allies" and is in fact at heart no Ally of the US or any Western Nation.
They openly harbor Terrorists and are can't even protect their own citizenry against the likes of the Taliban and Al Qaida.

They are as corrupt as Mexico and the US would be right to bomb them even further back into the Stone Age than they already are, but since they are in a death grip with India -- that's a no go.

Fuck Pakistan -- they are no friend of the Free World and are nothing short of a Lucy to the Al Qaida fighting Charlie Brown, pretending to help, but openly acting to subvert our efforts.

Re:Humm.

[Anonymous Coward]

washington? Ohh that's right, Obama is a freedom-hating terrorist.

Re:Why the fuck is this even on Slashdot?

[DNS-and-BIND]

You are an English speaker with education and access to high technology. Your countrymen are viciously sensitive to any suggestion that they might be culpable for terrorism while enthusiastically supporting the same. Your "bigger fish to fry" argument doesn't hold water. When OBL was killed, the national mood of humiliation wasn't "we said we didn't have him and were lying through our teeth the whole time", it was "the Mighty Pak Army[tm] couldn't defend our sacred territory".

Yes, sacred territory. Quick quiz for the Westerner, what does "Pakistan" even mean? Don't answer if you already know.

Re:Cool story

[SplashMyBandit]

If you are not afraid of the Islamist threat you are simply not paying attention. The evidence is all around (Eurabia etc). Go on YouTube and watch some of the stuff by Major Stephen Coughlin - and how the Pentagon completely misjudged the strategic nous of the OIC/Muslim Brotherhood. You are making the same fool mistake by stickking your head in the stand and ignoring the reality of the situation. The US/West are willing all the 'kinetic engagements' but are getting dominated in the Information Battlespace. We are winning the tactical engagements and losing the strategic situation. Too bad you have switched off because you haughtily believe you know everything. It sounds like you know far far less about the war against Islamists than you think. I would have been very pleased to refer you to some really great sources that are public, but hidden among the nonsense puff punditry. Stay an ostrich.

Re:Really?

[omkhar]

In most ME countries they really don't give a fuck about piracy.

Or you could look at a globe.

Pakistan is the Middle East now?