Activision Apologizes To Muslims

for years around the world Because of Islamophobia Muslim people experience various grievances. There are some criticisms of the spread of Islamophobia in many different sectors. Computer games can sometimes be the target of similar criticism. The speeches, images, tasks in the games received criticism from time to time.

It is one of the computer games that was first released in 2003 and adorned the childhood of many people. Call of Duty series has also been criticized for the problem in question since its launch. Published last week and the subject of World War II A scene from the Qur’an in Call of Duty: Vanguard Activision-Blizzard apologized to its Muslim users.

“Including by mistake”

Activision, one of the well-established names in the video game industry, announced Vanguard, the new game of Call of Duty, in the past months. The highly anticipated game was officially released last week. With the release of the game, a controversy also occurred. On the Stalingrad map of the game’s Zombie mode, which excited many users, they were scattered on the floor and some were covered in blood. Pages from the Quran appears to have been determined.

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Activision-Blizzard apologized to Muslims for the scenes that attracted the attention and reaction of Muslim users. In the statement published on Call of Duty Middle East social media accounts, the images was accidentally included in the game stating, “Call of Duty is made for everyone. There was content insensitive to the Muslim community that was mistakenly included last week and was removed from the game as soon as it was discovered. It shouldn’t look like in the game. We deeply apologize. We are taking urgent steps internally to address the situation so that such incidents do not occur in the future.” he stated. Then, blank pages were included instead of the Koran pages in the game.