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Innovative Minds' stated educational goal for the game is to "offer Muslim-inspired children's video games and other resources online in order to strengthen users' knowledge about Islam", [1] including to encourage a better understanding of Islam in the West. In the case of "The Resistance", the game's authors argue that it was "designed to ...
A non-Islamic related change in Sword of Islam was an update to the way in which the game approaches assassinations and plots. Whereas in the original game, it would display a percentage chance of having a character killed by the action, the updated mechanic has characters work together on those assassinations over time.
In most of the 200 scripted shows that researchers analyzed, Muslim characters were typically violent, dehumanized or disparaged — if they existed at all.
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Video games, as products of human culture, can be seen and read as "texts". They carry myths, stories and symbols of the time in which they were created. [81] By "reading" video games, philosophers, sociologists and theologians have the opportunity to study the religious and spiritual themes in video games. [82] This can be done in several ways.
Original TV series based on Arab and Muslim characters are beginning to go global, a Netflix executive said Saturday at the Red Sea Film Festival. Ahmed Sharkawi, director of Arab content, Netflix ...
Riz Ahmed still shakes his head at the way Muslims are portrayed onscreen. "The game right now is messed up. The game right now is rigged," Ahmed said in a new interview with news outlet Muslim. ...
Shohreh Aghdashloo was given an award by the Muslim Public Affairs Council for her voice performance. The Simpsons is noted for its religious themes, primarily the Protestant faith of most characters, but has also featured episodes based around Judaism, Catholicism, Hinduism and Buddhism. However, this was the first to have a plot involving Islam.