Oh, nooooo. Can't possibly have a game showing what Islam really wants to do to Christianity.
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Heaven forfend that a game actually tell the truth and show what Islamists have in store for all other faiths!
You know we are not supposed to post articles from 'The Onion'.
Hmmmm, Guardian, OOPs never mind.
So I'm just imagining those minarets in front of Hagia Sophia in Istambul?
Ping!
This is a economic/political landmine no matter what Microsoft does. Borders are disputed in about one third of the world. They're going to offend one country or the other.
I have Encarta Atlas. It shows a dotted outline where borders are disputed. I think that's the best you can hope for.
Reminds me of a story that circulated a few years ago. A group of Arab investors approached the sales manager of an outboard motor company with the idea of setting up a dealer network in Saudi Arabia. The manager dismissed the idea on the grounds that Saudi Arabia is nothing but desert and there would be no market for his products. The deal went to a competitor instead, and resulted in a flourishing new market for outboard motors.
The sales manager who thought outboards were useless in the desert was fired when the story reached the company's board of directors, one of whom had seen a map at some point and knew, therefore, that Saudi Arabia is a peninsula and is surrounded by water.
More proof of Gen X stupidity. They know all about technology and nothing about anything else. I work with dumb f(&%$ like this. All Head Up A%$ types who think they know it all. It goes without saying that their people skills are equally abysmal. Can't make a sentence with a subject and predicate, work with a woefully limited vocabulary and express themselves with the most common and intellectually ehausted language, dress like happy Halloween, cannot comprehend personal hygiene, defer to no one and observe or respect no authority above themselves, etc. But they know it all....
How about incompetent program developers with little knowledge of software security issues?
How's that been for the companies reputation and "trust rating"?
Well, Political Corectness DOES have its own cost! LOL! Couldn't happen to a better company!
A Transworld Airlines employee once told me he nearly got TWA kicked out of Egypt because he innocently routed a message to Israel thru the TWA Egyptian office. Back then, even acknowledging the existence of Israel was a major offense.
RE: showed the disputed Jammu-Kashmir region as not being in India
Actually, I've seen similar things on many "PC" maps, which were intended to appease Pakistani and Chinese sensibilities. Both Pakistan and the PRC want to promote the idea that Kashmir is *wholly* not part of India. Hmmm ... I wonder if the person who embedded that map was the PRC national on an H1B, or maybe even one in the PRC at MS's Red Chinese development center?
This is why MS must be allowed to hire more and more H1-B and other kinds of itinerant workers.
FWIW, in Age of Empires the Christians can also convert mosques to churches. Winner takes all.
I wonder if Israel would be referred to as "Occupied Territory"?