Tunch Khan
King
No one ever told Sid and Firaxians that this would cause a massive outrage in all of the Muslim world? Just look at that poor Danish magazine who had the same misfortune by publishing his image very recently. The image of Prophet Muhammad is considered the biggest taboo and is strictly forbidden. Of course there are no such laws to prevent that anywhere outside the muslim world but it still sparks a lot of fire. Firaxis has just shipped tens of thousands of copies of CDs and DVDs which include an image called leaderhead_arabia_muhammad which is not even used in the game for any reason. So it was totally unnnecessary. I think someone in the staff was testing its effects trying to imitate what that Danish newspaper recently did.
Don't just come and tell me what is wrong with that. I couldn't care less, but this is a very well known fact and common courtesy to other people's religion. If they are sincere about what they wrote about religions in the game manual, they should stop treating muslims as Usama's equals as there are hundreds of millions of muslims who detest fundamentalists equally as any other reasonable person.
So however small it is, it is still a visual image of the Islamic Prophet and they should just overwrite that file in the first coming patch (ASAP) and probably come up with a weird excuse saying it was suposed to be Muhammad 17th of Kuwait or another similar lie.
Once they've cleaned up the mess, they can lock this thread and any other existing trace to avoid the issue becoming public.
Don't just come and tell me what is wrong with that. I couldn't care less, but this is a very well known fact and common courtesy to other people's religion. If they are sincere about what they wrote about religions in the game manual, they should stop treating muslims as Usama's equals as there are hundreds of millions of muslims who detest fundamentalists equally as any other reasonable person.
So however small it is, it is still a visual image of the Islamic Prophet and they should just overwrite that file in the first coming patch (ASAP) and probably come up with a weird excuse saying it was suposed to be Muhammad 17th of Kuwait or another similar lie.
Once they've cleaned up the mess, they can lock this thread and any other existing trace to avoid the issue becoming public.
But Muhamad II, (better known as Mehmed II the Conqueror) never lead any Arabic soldier, nor administered any Arabic territory. During his reign Ottoman Empire had not expanded towards Arabia yet. It would have been a better guess if you said Muhammad II was a Greek leader, since he has Greek blood, spoke fluent Greek, administered all of the Greek speaking territories and proclaimed himself Roman Caesar, protector of all Greek Orthodox religion.
so no more on that issue. I hope others will follow moderator's sound warning as well.
