well for me it is, for you is another thing.

Well said blackstar !!!!

No , I said clearly that I support this move by Sony, and I think that Sony played it safe and avoided any controversy thatca happen.

It's not a conspiracy and it's stupid to think that a conspiracy is launched using a game( even if it's HUGE!!)

The problem doesn't lie within the fact that all or even most Muslims would be offended by Qu'ran references in LBP music; the problem is that there may be a fringe element of radical Islamic persons who would feel a sense of outrage and might demonstrate that outrage. The move by Sony to delay release of LBP is a prudent one given the fact that the game is supposed to be one of the strongest Sony games for the year, and Sony doesn't need to stir up controversy when it can be avoided rather easily.

The whole thing is simple you dont mix Quran with music. Does not matter if the artist is muslim. Sony did the right thing with deleting the song. Dont like the whole idea to have religious lyrics hidden in a game.

neither me, no one have the right to impose a religious (lyrics, symbole,belief,...) on another.

good move by Sony.

well suposing you're a good (insert any religion) and you played the game, you loved the song, the sentences got stuck in your head and you spend your day mumbling the lyrics (even if in somalian that happen) after 2 weeks of mumbling you discover that those lyrics are two line of another religion that you don't believe in, I bet you you'll be furious, if this happen to me I'll feel cheated, and that's exactly what I mean ;) .

I wouldn't feel cheated, because I couldn't care less about one religion or the other :)


Let's say I was listening to a Japanese anime song, and it was "haha, Europeans suck because they watch our shows. They can't do anything themselves" as a lyric.

1) I wouldn't know the lyrics anyway, and would just sing the song if it had a catchy tune

2) If I did find out the lyrics, I'd go "meh" or "hahaha, darn you, Japanese mofo's", not "WHYYYYY, you subliminal posters! I demand retribution" or something...

It's like what Eminem has said: He can't believe that people act the way he does in songs, or do the same things he talks about in songs, when he explicitely said it's just a song.

That's how this should've been approached: a game, with a certain song that happens to have certain lyrics.  A patch would've solved the problem, and the ones that keep saying that "people without an internet connection" would've suffered from this, the fact remains that the song is not understandable by 99.999999% of gamers (praise be to that one Somalian gamer and that one Somalian interpreter that understands it).

papflesje: lewl at the somalian example I can speak/understand somalian but I am muslim :P