Muslim Advocacy Group Asks Digital Storefronts To Ban Six Days In Fallujah
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has asked Valve, Microsoft, and Sony not to host or distribute what it calls an Arab murder simulator.
April 9, 2021 at 8:07AM PDT
A Muslim advocacy group has issued a statement asking Valve, Microsoft, and Sony not to distribute the controversial upcoming game Six Days in Fallujah, saying it glorifies violence against Iraqi civilians and reinforces anti-Muslim bigotry.
The statement issued by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a DC-based civil rights and advocacy group, called on the three major games platform-holders not to host or digitally distribute the game. It argues that the battle that the game is based upon killed more than 800 Iraqi civilians, and that the US military s use of white phosphorous has led to birth defects in the years since.
PS5 and Xbox urged to BAN ‘Six Days in Fallujah’ game for recreating 2004 Iraq War battle
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
9 Apr 2021, 12:24
Updated: 9 Apr 2021, 12:26
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
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A CONTROVERSIAL video game set during the Iraq War s bloodiest battle has come under fresh criticism ahead of its release this year.
A prominent Muslim advocacy group has called on PlayStation and Xbox to ban Six Days in Fallujah, branding the game an Arab murder simulator .
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A prominent Muslim advocacy group has branded Six Days in Fallujah an Arab murder simulator Credit: handout
The first-person shooter follows US soldiers during an intense battle in 2004 that resulted in the deaths of more than 800 Iraqi civilians.
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Six Days in Fallujah glorifies violence that took the lives of over 800 Iraqi civilians . CAIR also says
Six Days promotes Islamophobic narratives and attempts to justify the invasion of Iraq. The invasion of Fallujah has, according to CAIR, been heavily criticized for such events as the use of white phosphorous. As a result of the events of Fallujah, CAIR says Iraqi babies are still being born with birth defects, which the Council points to as another reason to prevent
Six Days in Fallujah from being distributed and glorifying these events.
This image was included alongside CAIR s calls for major gaming companies not to distribute
By largest Muslim advocacy group in US. Updated on 8 April 2021
A prominent Muslim advocacy organisation has called for PlayStation, Xbox and Valve to drop controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights charity in the US, issued the call in a press release which brings the game s subject matter back into the spotlight once again.
Calling the game an Arab murder simulator , CAIR linked to Rebekah Valentine s recent article for IGN on the game, Six Days in Fallujah Is Complicated and Painful For Those Connected to the Real Events, and an article from Turkish-state owned news outlet TRT World, Six Days in Fallujah reveals the gaming industry s Islamophobia problem.