Islamic fundy hackers turn pro-US games into pro-guerrilla games

A little bit of hacking can change the entire plot; a little bit of hacking can turn Rambo into King Cobra.


Islamic fundy hackers turn pro-US games into pro-guerrilla games: "Cory Doctorow: Fundamentalist Islamic hackers are reportedly modding militaristic video-games so that the good guys wear turbans and shoot from the hills, and the bad guys invade in tanks and choppers:

Battlefield 2 ordinarily shows U.S. troops engaging forces from China or a united Middle East coalition. But in a modified video trailer posted on Islamic websites and shown to lawmakers, the game depicts a man in Arab headdress carrying an automatic weapon into combat with U.S. invaders.

'I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in Blackhawk helicopters,' a narrator's voice said as the screen flashed between images of street-level gunfights, explosions and helicopter assaults.

Then came a recording of President Bush's September 16, 2001 statement: 'This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while.' It was edited to repeat the word 'crusade,' which Muslims often define as an attack on Islam by Christianity.

Two militant videos were also pointed out to lawmakers, including one called Lion of Fal"