PS3 Title recalled over Koran phrases

Let thing it will be protests to behead the games characters.

Eh.. at least they recalled it not to offend people. If they let it go, some christian fundamentalists probably would've accused Sony of trying to convert their children.

I did not know that Muslims considered "the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran deeply offending.". Why is that? Just curious.

sounds good though. shame

i don't care who i offend by playing it. i have been looking foreword to this game for a long time and now i am pissed that i have to wait even longer

and when did quoting religious text become offensive

it is very responsible of sony to change the music on every game rather than to offer a patch to fix it later.

The more I learn about what offends Islam or any other religion for that matter, the more I believe religious people have no fun at all.

I agree with Lockoneyes all the Ps3 is,is an excuse to waste valuable money on a video game console which has no congical value in my opinion

Who owns a PS3? What a piece of overpriced junk.... About as much use as the book the lyrics are quoting.

I dont know why i am posting this, feeling flagrantly argumentative.

offensive material ?

And sony's Response:
"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 apologise for any offence that this may have caused.
We'll confirm the new launch date shortly."

and yes, I am awesome.

The Complaint:

To: Sony Computer Entertainment & Media Molecule

While playing your latest game, "LittleBigPlanet" in the first level of the third world in the game (titled "Swinging Safari"), I have noticed something strange in the lyrics of the music track of the level. When I listened carefully, I was surprised to hear some very familiar Arabic words from the Quran. You can listen to part of the track here:

http://mt14.quickshareit.com/share/preview/soundclip22503c0.wav

The words are:

1- In the 18th second: "كل نفس ذائقة الموت" ("kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt", literally: 'Every soul shall have the taste of death').

2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "كل من عليها فان" ("kollo man alaiha fan", literally: 'All that is on earth will perish').

I asked many of my friends online and offline and they heard the exact same thing that I heard easily when I played that part of the track. Certain Arabic hardcore gaming forums are already discussing this, so we decided to take action by emailing you before this spreads to mainstream attention.

We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online update, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it.

We would also like to mention that this isn't the first time something like this happened in videogames. Nintendo's 1998 hit "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" contained a musical track with islamic phrases, but it was removed in later shipments of the game after Nintendo was contacted by Muslim organizations. Last year, Capcom's "Zack & Wiki" and Activision's "Call of Duty 4" also contained objectionable material offensive to Muslims that was spotted before the release of the final games, and both companies thankfully removed the content.

We hope you act immediately to avoid any confusion and unnecessary controversy, and we thank you for making such an amazing game.

Regards,
NSider

Edukation time:

The track was licensensed from an independant music producers myspace (or such) page

the actual lyrics were:
1- In the 18th second: "كل نفس ذائقة الموت" ("kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt", literally: 'Every soul shall have the taste of death').

2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "كل من عليها فان" ("kollo man alaiha fan", literally: 'All that is on earth will perish').

Which are a pretty fair summation of things in my opinion.
And coming from a book of gibberish no less..

The track was removed after a single polite complaint from a gamer.
It's fair to assume they removed it to stop a POSSIBLE offensive and backlash in muslim countrie and the neg PR

The artist who made it is a muslim too.

Ah, but who are Sony afraid of offending? The thousands of people who have pre-ordered the game at high street stores? If it was phrases from the Bible would it be the same situation?

As long as the phrases weren't particularly inflammatory, I don't see the problem, kids are taught about other religions at school.

Not so smart to add in music containing lyrics in a language you don't even understand :>

So everyone's gonna have to wait another month for LittleBigPlanet? I wonder what the offensive material was. And why it wouldn't be recognised as offensive until so late in the release process.