A "must have" for your Christmas list!

If CAIR hates it, it's gotta be good:

A U.S. Islamic advocacy group Tuesday called on the country's largest retailer to stop selling a video game it says glorifies religious violence and could negatively affect interfaith relations.

The game, "Left Behind: Eternal Forces," is described on the game's website as a real-time strategy game based on the best-selling book series "Left Behind."

It allows gamers to "join the ultimate fight of good against evil, commanding Tribulation Forces or the Global Community Peacekeepers, and uncover the truth about the worldwide disappearances" - a reference to the end-time rapture.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which says it received complaints about the game, charged that players are rewarded for either converting or killing people of other faiths.

In a letter to H. Lee Scott Jr., CEO of Wal-Mart, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said the game was promoting a message of "religious intolerance."

"The game's enemy team includes people with Muslim-sounding names," Awad said, urging Scott not to sell the game.

Ahhhh... now we get to the meat of the matter.

Word to CAIR: You want folks to quit associating the word, "Islam" with "enemy?"

Then QUIT SUPPORTING TERRORISM!


Aside from that, CAIR remains consistent in never missing an opportunity to be wrong:

Frichner said CAIR's stance was "based on hearsay."

He acknowledged that in the "Left Behind" book series the Tribulation Forces are Christians but said that was not mentioned anywhere in the game.

Frichner said the game encourages players to avoid conflict, because "if you end up having to defend yourself ... you actually are penalized as well."

"So it's really just the complete opposite of what people have written and reported about."

On the "convert or die" allegation, Frichner said there was no element of people of other faiths being forced to convert to Christianity or die.

The game called for people to join the Tribulation Force rather than die at the hands of the anti-Christ. "You're trying to save other people from that and ultimate judgment by God," he said.

Of course, I haven't heard CAIR or any other of the anti-Christian zealots caterwalling about this game or this game. The anti-Christian bigots are perfectly fine with a steady diet of porn and/or violence. But a Christian-based game??? Why that's just over the top!

Consumers who have bought the game love it, he said, because they can play it with their kids instead of "all the yuck that's out there."

Frichner charged that there was a "religiously motivated bias" in calls to boycott the game. Those pushing for a boycott were not boycotting other games - even though there were "some terrible games out there."

So, even if you're not into video games, why not go to your local Wal-Mart and purchase this one (and thank them for carrying it, for that matter).

If for no other reason than to give the Islamo-Fascists and other anti-Christian bigots the proverbial finger.