Well, my thought here is that I hope that this blows up in their face. It seems like an attempt to be as contreversial as possible, for the sake of making money off of the contreversy, especially seeing as they really don't have an issue to address for the game and are just pushing political buttons. I'd imagine the project probably started when someone looked at all the attention "Playable Taliban" were getting, not to mention the whole thing with "Juarez". They also probably figured that if they took a left wing/pro-Muslim track with the whole thing, they could avoid most of the more vocal critics and those who would be liable to you know... actually do something to them. Guys who produce works of fiction that are critical of Muslim culture tend to wind up with death warrents on their heads should they be known, what happened with "Satanic Verses" is a good example of this. The path they are taking is actually a sort of "contreversy along the path of least resistance" track.
I say this because a lot of their central statements might resonate with left wingers, but are untrue. The US is pretty much polarized 50-50 with elections being decided on a razor's edge. Obama came into power with a mere 7% lead, and Bush came in for two terms where they were pretty much counting individual ballots. We have a bit of a backswing in the current victories by the so called "Tea Party" but at the same time they are just as contreversial
as anything. The US has been a deadlocked mess for a while now, and anyone who thinks that this is due to a "sudden rise to power of right wing elements" is fooling themselves.
Likewise as I've demonstrated numerous times with links and such, the problem isn't with a tiny minority of people in "The Muslim World", but with the whole culture in the region, that's why it's such a hard problem to deal with. I've demonstrated this on a number of occasions by posting links to Muslim television shows and the like on numerous occasions which exist to condition children from a very early age to want to kill, enslave, or destroy non-Muslims and propagate their own culture. The problem with perception being that the mainstream media doesn't put much focus on covering these things, leading to the persistant opinion that we're dealing with a small, radical fringe, and thus garnering support for strategies that are ineffective since that's not what we're dealing with.
All of these things can be debated of course, and that isn't the point, the thing is, that this seems like it's not an attempt to address the subject as to basically try and make money off of a piece of intentionally misguided flame bait.
As I've said before, I find situations like this disgusting because they make me question my own belief in free speech. I am very much someone who thinks that freedom of speech does NOT mean only the freedom for people to say what you agree with. I welcome contreversial, and even offensive dialogues, and engage in discussions with people I strongly disagree with all the time. In this case though it's not a dialogue, it's not a constructive or informed analysis of anything, it's simply an attempt to create chaos and profit off of it.
Sadly, I have to say I hope this backfires on them, but at the same time it would probably be a greater evil to actually stop it, or for the app store (or whatever market they use) to refuse to carry it.
