Jose Antonio Vargas looks a the recent Islamogaming phenomenon, including Night of Bush Capturing, Afkar Media's work, and others. And get this:
The Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute, a nonpartisan group that translates Arabic language television and Web sites, says that in June, Sheik Nabil Al-Awadhi, who has a weekly show on the Kuwaiti channel Al-Rai TV called "Sa'at Saraha" ("An Hour of Sincerity"), spoke of the need for Islamic games that compete with Western games. He also suggested developing a game in which the Muslim player "slaughters the Jews and liberates the Al-Aqsa Mosque." In the West, they turn their wars against Muslims into games, he said, and Muslims should do the same.
Also includes quotes from Dennis McCauley of Gamepolitics (who writes about Vargas' article here) and yours truly.
Vargas also wrote about the effects of game training on soldiers earlier this year.
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