> Independent NewsMuslim children 'kill' Israelis on UK-made 'Islamic Fun' CD > > http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=301456 > > > © 2002 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd > > > 03 June 2002 20:57 BDST Home > News > UK > This Britain > > Muslim children 'kill' Israelis on UK-made 'Islamic Fun' CD > By Robert Mendick > 02 June 2002 > > A British company is producing an educational CD-Rom that encourages Muslim children as young as five to "kill" > Israelis. > The CD, called Islamic Fun!, is being sold for £19.95 from a suburban home in Crawley, West Sussex. One of the games on > the disc, obtained by The Independent on Sunday, is called The Resistance and tells children playing it: "You are a > farmer in south Lebanon who has joined the Islamic Resistance to defend your land and family from the invading > Zionists." > Players procure ammunition to fire at Israeli tanks by answering multiple choice questions and then firing at the > Israelis as the tanks roll across the screen. There are three playing levels: for children aged between five and seven > years, those aged eight to 10, and the hardest level for children aged 11 and over. > > Questions include "What was the crime of the Jews of Khayber?" and "Who said: 'I know I have been elected thanks to the > votes of US Jews. I owe my election to them. Tell me what I have to do for the Jewish people' to Ben Gurion?" > > Abbas Panjwani, the director of the company Innovative Minds, which produces Islamic Fun! said: "The game does not > target any human beings including soldiers, it targets Israeli tanks. From that point of view it's no different from any > other war game. It does not target any religious or racial group including the Jewish community. In fact its educational > content teaches children the difference between Judaism and Zionism." > > The company has been producing the game for more than three years but it has come to the notice of the Jewish community > only in recent weeks and follows a campaign on Innovative Minds' website calling for a boycott of Israeli goods. > > Mr Panjwani said: "Since last December when we started [our] boycott Israeli goods campaign we have received violent > threats to my wife and child, abusive phone calls, several hundred hate e-mails every day, our website was forced to > close down due to threats against our host providers which have all been reported to the police. > > "This matter of the game is the latest of a whole series of abuse we have been receiving simply for practising our right > to oppose illegal occupation and atrocities committed by the state of Israel." > > The Board of Deputies of British Jews, which represents UK Jewry, has investigated the legal status of the CD-Rom but > has been advised by lawyers there is no current legislation to make Islamic Fun! illegal. Fiona Macaulay, the board's > director of public affairs, said: "This CD is completely inappropriate for children. This is the sort of material that > when taught to children breeds violence and hatred. It is a tragedy that this is coming not from Lebanon but from > Crawley."
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