Six Days In Fallujah, as you know, is a tactical FPS game about the Iraq war based on real scenarios. And this game that we’ve been reporting on recently, it looks like it’s going to stir things up. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a community in America, called the game an“Arab murder simulator”and called on Valve to remove it from Steam.
Muslims react strongly to Six Days In Fallujah
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington DC-based civil rights and advocacy group for Muslims, is asking Valve, Microsoft and Sony to refuse to distribute Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Second Fallujah War. The battle in question was one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq War.
“We are trying to prohibit Microsoft, Sony and Valve from hosting Six Days In Fallujah, an Arab murder simulator that will only normalize violence against Muslims in America and around the world,” CAIR Research and Defense Coordinator Huzaifa Shahbaz saidin a statement.
“The gaming industry must stop dehumane Muslims. Video games like Six Days In Fallujah serve to glorify violence that has however however thwarted the lives of hundreds of Iraqi civilians, justify the Iraq war and reinforce anti-Muslim sentiment at a time of anti-Muslim bigotry. It continues to threaten human life.
This game looks like it’s going to make a lot of trouble. The game, first announced in 2009 and suspended after Konami saw these controversies and effectively halted the project, is now back on the agenda. Developer Atomic Games closed in 2011 after failing to find a new publisher, but the website, complete with a commitment to end the game, remains. In February 2021, Six Days was unexpectedly re-announced as a project of Victura, a new studio, highwire games and a new publisher founded by former Atomic Games CEO Peter Tamte.
Six Days In Fallujah tells a story about the Iraq War involving soldiers and civilians with a variety of experiences and views, and is referred to as a play about many challenging topics, including documentary episodes “events and political decisions.” The most crucial point here is that Six Days takes a sympathetic, pro-American view of a war that has killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians.
