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Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) was concerned with the circulation of videogames which depict the Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet Jesus, and Buddha was fought in an arena. In the game titled "Faith Fighter" (Warriors of Religion), the Hindu god Ganesha are also involved into one of his fighter, as the background of the fight, used images of buildings that was destroyed and burned.

God of lightning strikes and attack with a burst of flame, and the Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban depicted able to bring in a burning black meteorite.

Organization of Islamic Conference representing Muslim countries say that the game should be immediately removed and discontinued the circulation of the internet.
"Computer games contain content that is offensive to Muslims and Christians, the game is only intended to trigger a scene," the statement from the OIC.

OIC asked the site manager who provides an online game to immediately take the necessary steps and eliminate the game from internet sites.
Game designer, Molleindustria, argue that the game has actually been circulating for over a year and has played to millions of times, they assume that the sticking problems related to the game just a mere misunderstanding, but they also add that the game has been deleted from the virtual world .
"This game is made with a view to oppose violence and intolerance, also against satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad made in Denmark," Molleindustria wrote in an e-mail. "So when you get a reputable organization can not catch the irony and the message is in it, then we've failed."
In Islam, any depiction of the Prophet's efforts are not permitted.

When a Danish newspaper printed 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a negative way, it infuriated Muslims around the world.

A series of protests and harsh criticism sprung from Morocco to Indonesia, where protesters burned Danish flags and condemning Denmark and a number of interests of the Western world. Some Muslim countries boycott products made in Denmark.

In that game, the character can jump, kick and beat one another, similar to the fight game in the popular arcade machines in the 1980s and 1990s.

Organization of Islamic Conference provide a response to an article published in a British news website, Metro UK, and stated that the game is to offend religious groups.

However Molleindustria re-issued rebuttal by saying, "We suspect the people at OIC did not really play and watched the game carefully and only make the article on Metro UK as a reference source of controversy."
In a statement reported on its Web site, where the games available to play, Molleindustria said the game was not created with the intention to offend any religious teachings.

"The game was created with the intention to make the people who play it realize how sacred religious symbols are often used to trigger or justify conflicts between groups and between nations," said Molleindustria.

The site also mentioned that the game is a "means of impingement hatred toward other religions in a fun way."
Party game makers also offer a version of "censorship" in which the Prophet Muhammad's face is not shown.
In its website, Molleindustria refers to himself as "a group of artists, designers, and programmers that aims Italian to uncover the social consequences and politics that can be generated by videogames."

Other games made Molleindustria namely: Pedopriest, Queer Power and Oiligarchy, also considered to contain a mockery of the Catholic Church, sexual orientation, and the petroleum industry.

This is not the first time an online videogame sparked harsh criticism from Muslim organizations. In 2008, an Islamic group in London to protest the release of a game with the theme of massacres of Muslims. Ramadan, the Islamic Society, based in London urged the British government to investigate and block internet sites that promote the game in cyberspace.

Videogame makers titled "Muslims Massacre" to design a special Internet site where video game sites are then blocked by a number of Arab countries. In these sites, the game maker said that he "thought to make the game after the U.S. government officially declared war against Islam."