Would you like to know another game that's prohibited. Chess. In Saudi Arabia to play chess is to commit sacrilege. Would you like to know why? Because there is a belief that the game can be gambled upon. I am avid chess player. There is a massive chess community worldwide. You may have heard about Grand Master such as Bobby Fischer or Magnus Carlson. None of them play to gamble. Chess is not a game of chance in any way whatsoever - yet the Saudi Fatwa declarers fail to see that.
The point here is that because there's some overweight dude who thinks you'll start worshiping the God like character of the game doesn't mean you will. Just because they are concerned about your ability to separate reality from fiction does not mean you should be.
On a side note, throught the Muslim world Goerge Orwell's book Animal Farm has been prohibited. The book described the rise of the totalitarian, supposedly communist, state in Soviet Russia under Lenin. It did this using the metaphor of Animals (the poor in Russia) removing their Human Owners (the elite in Russia who were exploiting their peasant workers). Now, there is little doubt (many studies have demonstrated this) to the Pig being one of the most clever of Farm animals, and so the narrative involved the pigs leading the revolt against the farmer. What happens after this revolution is that you discover that the leaders of that very revolution soon after become just like the animal's previous Human Owners, in that they exploit their subordinates. This is what happened in Russia with Lenin. Orwell portrayed the Pigs as being cruel, careless characters - who, despite the promises they made before the revolution, became exactly like the Human farm animal owners. This novel gave people a wonderful insight as to exactly what happened in Soviet Union. It is world proclaimed. No-one gives a damn about the fact that the main character being a Pig, that's NOT the point. Yet so many Muslims fail to read this historic literary masterpiece, a extremely educational piece, simply because there is a character of a Pig in there.
The point here is that because there's some overweight dude who thinks you'll start worshiping the God like character of the game doesn't mean you will. Just because they are concerned about your ability to separate reality from fiction does not mean you should be.
On a side note, throught the Muslim world Goerge Orwell's book Animal Farm has been prohibited. The book described the rise of the totalitarian, supposedly communist, state in Soviet Russia under Lenin. It did this using the metaphor of Animals (the poor in Russia) removing their Human Owners (the elite in Russia who were exploiting their peasant workers). Now, there is little doubt (many studies have demonstrated this) to the Pig being one of the most clever of Farm animals, and so the narrative involved the pigs leading the revolt against the farmer. What happens after this revolution is that you discover that the leaders of that very revolution soon after become just like the animal's previous Human Owners, in that they exploit their subordinates. This is what happened in Russia with Lenin. Orwell portrayed the Pigs as being cruel, careless characters - who, despite the promises they made before the revolution, became exactly like the Human farm animal owners. This novel gave people a wonderful insight as to exactly what happened in Soviet Union. It is world proclaimed. No-one gives a damn about the fact that the main character being a Pig, that's NOT the point. Yet so many Muslims fail to read this historic literary masterpiece, a extremely educational piece, simply because there is a character of a Pig in there.