The Annointed Fig

Want to see an Old Testament God duke it out with Mohammad on your computer screen?  How about pitting Buddha against Jesus?

Well, too late (if you are a gaming purist) — because it has just been removed from the site of Molleindustria, the developer of the flash video game for dark times, Faith Fighter, a year-old politically incorrect outlet for our repressed emotions and squandered adrenaline that has won and received honorable mentions at such new media events like Pixxelpoint 2008.

All we can do now is remember, salivate -- and find it persisting online!

After a recent statement by a hardline Organization of The Islamic Conference condemning the game, the Molleinudstria has symbolically pulled the game from its servers (copies and documentation to still be found all over the net), coming out with this afterstatement:  “In few hours this statement generated a way more heated reactions than the release of the game. We are not “bowing to the fundamentalists”, we have no sympathy for any religion but we are aware that Muslims are victim of widespread racism in the western world. This islamofobia is functional to the imperial interests in Middle East and all over the world. We just want to make clear that the game was not intended to contribute to the media-assisted narrative “Islamic world vs freedom of speech”.”

Commendable if a touch belated statement.  Not to mention a rather useless and, perhaps, self-aggrandizing one, at odds with an off the cuff image the Molleindustria is trying to project.

I don’t think the OIC had much to worry about when the link was active (after all, this was an equal opportunity offender, if anything).  And the developer now really shouldn’t agonize over contributing to the worldwide religious intolerance.  It has been there before the game had been a glimmer in the creators’ eyes — and unless something truly significant changes, it will continue to be so long after Alexa’s WayBack Machine stops displaying the now-defunct link.

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