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Virtual Video Game Koran Leads to Outrage, Apologies

Virtual Video Game Koran Leads to Outrage, Apologies
By Daniel Greenfield

Islamists have thrown tantrums over real Korans being allegedly defiled, but this may be the first tantrum over a virtual Koran. How meta.

Activision has issued an apology after ‘insensitive’ uses of the Muslim holy text, the Quran, were included on the floor of a Call of Duty Vanguard Zombies map. The images have now been removed from the game.

Following the launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard, a number of players noticed that the game contained various pages from the Quran scattered across the floor of a Zombies map. The pages of the holy text were positioned in a way that allowed players to step on them while engaging in gunfights. Putting a copy of the Quran on the floor is considered a disrespectful act, and the scattered pages caused an outcry, with some even calling for a boycott of the game.

Virtually stepping on them.

It is horribly offensive when texts calling for the murder of non-Muslims and sex slavery for little girls accidentally appear in an American game.

But I’m sure when Sunni Muslim terrorists suicide bomb Shiite mosques and engage in gunfights, they take great care not to step them on any Korans in the process.

Activision, the company in question, has already issued a groveling apology, “There was insensitive content to the Muslim community mistakenly included last week, and has since been removed from the game. It should never have appeared as it did in-game. We deeply apologize. We are taking immediate steps internally to address the situation to prevent such occurrences in the future.”

Does the Koran qualify as insensitive content?

The timing of this is likely not a coincidence with Activision facing an SJW pressure campaign to embrace identity politics quotas and put lefty employee stakeholder groups in charge of the company. With Activison bending to some of their demands, the Islamists seized on the opportunity to manufacture their own social justice outrage.

But if offending virtual Korans becomes a new problem in the metaverse, will the beheadings and suicide bombings stay virtual, or become all too real?

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