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Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: The Open Minded // Thursday, August 4th, 2011


Following the tragic massacre in Norway, Call of Duty has been pulled from two major retailers. Not only has Call of Duty been removed from shelves, but other violent first person shooters have also been pulled.

One of the stores, called Coop, made a statement saying:

Originally posted by another user

"In light of Friday's horrific events, and out of respect for those affected, we have chosen to remove selected items from our range."

Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: World at War Platinum, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Classic, Homefront, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, Counter-Strike Source, and World of Warcraft have all been pulled from the store shelves at Coop.

Another store chain called Platekompaniet has also removed various shooters and other games from it's shelves.

Although the shooter from the incident, Anders Breivik, stated he had very little interest in first person shooters, he did state:

Originally posted by another user

[Modern Warfare 2 was] "part of my training simulation…You can more or less completely simulate actual operations."

Breivik did spend a lot of time using video games, but he was more geared towards RPGs and fantasy titles. He was a self proclaimed World of Warcraft addict. It is believed he made the claims of addiction to cover up the time he spent meticulously planning his attack.

So what are your opinions? Do you think that these games should have been pulled due to the attack? Are his claims that he used violent, first person shooters to plan his attack justification enough to deprive consumers of a product that they have the right to purchase?

Al Qaeda does not exist.
The C.I.A made it up as an excuse to send troops to the middle east to take oil from oil rich countries.. Why are the U.S in Libya?

Libya has oil.

What was the name of the operation in Iraq?

Operation
Iraqi
Liberation

Read downwards.

Its God my friend

That's stupid. Really stupid.

Terrorism is the use of violence or force with the intent to intimidate. This guy just wanted to kill people. It's not the same thing.

dam, without WoW, how I am to simulate my attack on the goblins!?!

Very disrespectful words , "yea yea 60+ teenagers died that is the most selfish words you could of used think about there families imagine you was in that 60+ and someone said yea yea about it , also you have the grammar level of a 6 year old.

I personally feel it's terrorism. He apparently had political and/or religious influence/motivation, and if that kind of background of the attack came from a follower of Islam, it would be deemed terrorism. Instead it came from the opposite end of the spectrum yet in the same manner, and it's just ''mass murder''.

I agree with your definition, and so what I'm saying is, if a Muslim did what you said, ''just wanting to kill people'', and actually murdered 90+ people, it would be called a terrorist attack, regardless of motivation, likes most attacks from extremists.

It's as if people don't listen to the documentation left behind by extremists, they go on record to state that attacks are in retaliation to the brutality placed upon their people at the hands of American forces. Most attacks are not to incite fear, but to claim innocence in exchange for innocence. If the US didn't intefere abroad, there'd be no response from extremists because there'd be no devastation to respond to. It's chess, and the USA made the first move. Everything was peaceful until Osama Bin Laden stopped playing ball with the same CIA who funded him in the 80's, and praised him for fighting off the Russian Soviets. As soon as they had no use for him, sh!t sparked off on a world-wide scale.

Summary:
I agree with your definition, but the ''fear'' associated with Muslim attacks come from the convoluted journalism shown in UK/US media. The fear aspect is designed by news stations to whip up headlines and keep everyone on the same page, so there's no difference in terrorism between this Norway attack and other attacks from Muslims.

On-topic though: R.I.P. to all the victims in the attack, surely the guy will be given the death penalty, if it's legal there?

it figures!!!!