http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/10/17/littlebigplanet-release-update/

During the review process prior to the release of LittleBigPlanet, it has been brought to our attention that one of the background music tracks licensed from a record label for use in the game contains two expressions that can be found in the Qur’an. We have taken immediate action to rectify this and we sincerely apologize for any offense that this may have caused.

We will begin shipping LittleBigPlanet to retail in North America the week of October 27th. Sorry for the delay, and rest assured, we are doing everything we can to get LittleBigPlanet to you as soon as possible.

I can live with this. A week won't kill me, and I'm busy drooling over the Motorstorm: Pacific Rift demo anyway. Thank God it wasn't three weeks like some thought it might be.

I still want to know some EU release date info, as the 31st October release date is only a rumour

There are already plenty of threads with this exact info