This is really starting to piss me off.

[lady_kishiria]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/10/20/littlebigplanet.delay/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Now, why is it that on TV you can constantly make fun of Catholics (look at Family Guy where every time there's a priest you know he's a child molester) Jews (again, Family Guy a prime offender) and a whole Bill Maher movie has been devoted to insulting religious people, but whenever anything Muslim appears in popular culture, "OH NOES, MUSTN'T OFFEND THE MUSLIMS!!!!!!"

The mealy-mouthed response is, "But they might get violent."

So what? People get violent and froggy in this country every day, and we have this thing called police to take them and put them in jail. I suggest we make use of them.

Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Actually reading the text... there's nothing in here about mocking religious people, but about a serious flaw in the production process of this video game. Whomever was supposed to authorize music clearances should be fired for not doing their job. And probably will be.

This is a UK based game developer, in a country with significant Muslim population. Nobody noticed this "glitch" until now? That seems unlikely.

How would you have reacted if the story had been about a video game that had been pulled because someone objected to the use of one of your prayers or hymns in the music track? I'm not trying to troll you here, just holding up a mirror. I've spent the past several years kicking my assumptions in the butt. ::smile::

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

In the 90s there was a (in my opinion) very good TV show called "Nothing Sacred". It showed being Catholic as being an ongoing challenge and the priest who was the main character was often frustrated and doubtful.

Bill Donohue and the Catholic League raised an ENORMOUS stink and the show got pulled.

So I would react quite badly because I DETEST the Catholic League and what they stand for.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Yeesh, pulled for excessive realism? They must have burst a collective blood vessel over FATHER TED.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Oh but you must realize, to the Catholic League (which as far as I can tell consists of Bill Donohue and....Bill Donohue) screams blue murder if a priest is shown in a way any more edgy than in "Going My Way".

This icon would even piss them off.