If the militant Islam thing was actually about infidels, heathens, and great Satans and not about just hating America, then they would have been flying jet liners into Amsterdam were pot and prostitution are both legal.

How do we know this story wasn't written from an anti-gamer. My parents say that President Bush plays videogames for an hour everyday, but they hate games and Bush, so the story merely reinforces their hatred of both.

They're trying to say terrorism is the caused by video games.

Actually I have it on good authority that Muqtada Al-Sadr's favourite game is Princess Maker 4. After a hard days brutality and thuggery and rabble rousing on the streets of Baghdad, there's nothing Al-Sadr likes more than to unwind by guiding his favourite fairy princess through those troubling everyday decisions, like what to wear to the debutante's ball, or whether to tell her best friend Sally her boyfriend's been cheating on him. Awww bless...

He also likes to play the odd game of Counterstrike too, although be advised that the last wallhacking bitchz0r who headshotted him on dust2 was later found face down in a Baghdad parking lot with less kneecaps than he started with.

I am suprised that nobody pointed at the videogame "bomberman". I know, he is not from Al-Qaeda, but it was such an easy joke...

I know. Shit, I considered holding people hostage until the new Duke Nukem came out. Not really, I still got the old ones.
This looks like the kinda bullshit people like to use to lump videogamers in with terrorists.

He's probably really angry at America because of the Duke Nukem delays.

My guess is "Under Seige" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Siege_(video_game) ). Lets face it: With America's Army out there, how could anyone blame these guys for making their own games from their own standpoint. Any extemist views are simply a reaction to games like "America's Army" that involve shooting Muslims.

I think I pwned that n00b a couple of times!

hmm.... A terrorists favorite game...

Burnout???

Mario Kart??? His favorite item would be the bomb-omb...

Oh god, me and my horrible jokes are going to hell...

Values, not morals :p

That guy is 33?

Wow, he does not age well.

I'm going to bet he likes the occasional "Date Sim".......

I'm also expecting someone (CoughJTCough) to turn this into a 'See? I told you that gamers are terrorists!' thing.

This asshole tried to suicide bomb me in Gears Of War.

@ Darrell - no, you're reading that wrong... "the evidence says otherwise" phrase refers to Muqtada being called "mercurial"...

I probably should edit that out to be more clear.

"All joking aside, it seems kind of weird. Videogames are largely a creation of the West (and non-Islamic East)- shouldn’t this guy be opposed to them?"

Not really. You find contradictions to the hatred of the West all over what these organizations do. Groups like Al Queda embrace the Internet, for example, in spreading their ideals. They post videos of their hostages on the Internet. And at the same time, they hate the West.

As with any group with political foundations, there are double standards abound.

Nah, I don't think they'd spin an anti game article from THAT. It's too insignificant. Besides, everyone knows the hottest story is about this:

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=267474&GT1=10150

Captain America's Death. (which would probably be retconned soon. Mark my words)

Yea, good 'ol JT and LL are going to have their fun with this.

Or Battlefield 2 with the MEC(middle east coalition)

or better yet, Insurgents.

[...] White House Link to Article iraq Radical, Powerful Iraqi Cleric is a Gamer » Posted at GamePolitics.com on Sunday, July 01, 2007 Radical, Powerful Iraqi Cleric is a Gamer July 1st, 2007 Muqtada al Sadr is a gamer? ... for his virulent opposition to the American presence in Iraq, apparently kicks backs with video games, although ... reading Klein’s article, we were surprised to come across this: But the most important man in Iraq View Entire Article » [...]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say his favorite game is MS Flight Simulator.

Woah... I never knew an Islamist would be a hardcore gamer.

Great, so now not only do videogames make people violent, they make the terrorists too?

Breaking news: Gaming causes religious extremism says bribed hobo, do you know where your kids are???

Hey you never know, we are mostly assuming he plays a war game, but I agree with David ... very likely to be playing "Princess Maker 4". For most of us, computer games is an opportunity to do something we do not get to do in our everyday life :-).

G-Dog
because there to busy gettign laid and smoking a joint,while the US fundies gather power and raid other countries for kicks 0-o


tempo
4000 sounds like enough for all the rich and there,its like "US gov:ZOMG they are goign to build nukes with it..."Iraq:are you kidding it would void the warranty,do you know the shipping cost of getting it replaced!!!"
LOL

It must be Unreal Tournament. I'm pretty sure I've blown him up a few times.

He obviously plays World of Warcraft, Blood Elf hunter :|
I met him the other day, he wiped our raid :(
Blamed the Coalition government cos they hacked his ISP.