Diablo III Muslim Controversy?

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Of all the things that we expected to be controversial about Diablo III, this took us a bit by surprise as Muslim Gamer reports that apparently some textures used by various books in the title resemble the holy book for the Muslim religion, the Quran. The issue was initially noticed by a gamer who communicated this to Blizzard via a forum post, which is as follows:

Dear Blizzard,

As an old fan and player of Blizzard Entertainment, and always supporting your games, I've been wondering about an issue been noticed by me and my friends from streaming videos of Diablo III beta (didn't play it though), from a screenshot attached as follows, there is a strange resemblance between the book highlighted in the pic (Diablo III Gameplay) and the Holy book of Quran (Muslims Holy book).

The book is one of other books found on the shelves which is interacted with by dropping on the floor and it is also found buried under piles of dirt, supposedly the game (or any blizzard game before didn't implement something like that) and the game shouldn't intervene with any impact with religion whatever it is, or giving an offence to any of the known religions by any means.

Anyway, i suggest removing that texture of that book (of resemblance) before launching the original version of Diablo III and during that beta testing phase. Hoping to have a reply from the developers concerning this issue, to avoid any negative influence on Muslim fans and players (or any other religions fans to notice this) to deal with Blizzard games.

This would seem like an innocent oversight (similar to what happened with The Witcher 2, which in fact gets pointed out as an example), but it apparently caused quite a ruckus on the forums where it was posted, with replies of this kind:

(In my humble opinion, it should not be where it is in the game.)

(It should be neatly placed in an outhouse, along with every other religious scripture, so that our heroes have something to read while they take a dump)

(Grow up and get out of the forums)

(no1 cares you don't have the right to not be offended, if ur offended by something this stupid get out!)

(in the dirt where it belongs)

(I'm very happy to know that Muslims are offended It will make the game better)

(Just bury the OP, dislike if you don't agree. That way no one will pay attention to that kind of rubbish. Mission accomplished.)

(I'm loving this Crusade against the OP(

Considering that the texture has no relevance with the game overall, I suppose we can only hope that Blizzard quickly swaps it out and this controversy can end without any more incivility.

Diablo III Muslim Controversy?

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