Iranian game encourages execution of Salman Rushdie fatwa.(TD).By Brendan Kelly.First-person shooters have been asking gamers to gun down Middle Eastern ‘terrorists’ for some time, but now an Iranian video game under development is taking the opposite approach.
As reported by The Guardian, a video game, entitled The Stressful Life of
Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict, is being developed by the
Islamic Association of Students and was announced yesterday at Iran’s
International Computer Games Expo.Details about the game are sketchy, but the title seems pretty
self-explanatory – implement the fatwa.Salman Rushdie was targeted by Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic
republic of Iran, who issued a fatwa against the writer in 1989 after the
publication of his novel the Satanic Verses.Director of the Students Association Ahmad Khalili says that video game
development in Iran is often difficult, but coming up with ideas such as this
was the easy part.
"We don’t usually have any problems with initial thoughts and ideas but when it comes to the actual point of production we experience delays,” he told a local news agency.
Iranian officials have worried in the past that their country has been the
target of a cultural war through western novels, films, television and video
games.Another Students Association member, Mohammad-Taqi Fakhrian, says producing
Iranian-made video games is one way to help ensure that cultural saturation does
not take place.
"We felt we should find a way to introduce our third and fourth generation
to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and its importance,” he told another local
agency.Hmmmm.....To be found in Which Canadian Embassy?See earlier post today.Read the full story here.
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