a note on the littlebigplanet delay

As you may or may not know, LittleBigPlanet was delayed one week because a Muslim video game forum/group said that a song in LBP’s soundtrack called Tapha Niang by Toumani Diabate was terrible because it contained lyrics from the Qu’ran and according to the Muslim religion, the Qu’ran and music aren’t meant to be together.

This has caused Sony to delay the game a week so that they can patch the game and either remove or censor the song. The song is really good and it’s a bummer that it may not be featured in the game now. The worst part of this mess is how easily Sony felt they were in the wrong to upset some Muslims with some song lyrics.

Sony should not have removed the song from the game and it’s incredible how easily they were swayed into doing so. If the Muslim group didn’t want to play LittleBigPlanet because of the song then they should have just not purchased the game.

Oh well.