Call of Duty is rekruterings-tool voor moslim extremisten

RDJ134 30 juli 2014 om 19:51 uur

Video games zijn de laatste tijd weer lekker negatief in het nieuws, en vandaag komt daar het onderstaande bericht bij. Want wat blijkt nu volgens Mr Muthana is het Call of Duty's schuld dat zijn twee zoons Nasser (20) en Aseel (17) nu vechten met moslim extremisten in Syrië. Nu wil ik niet heel erg vervelend zijn, maar alle COD games die ik gespeeld hebt, waren nogal... behoorlijk... pro Amerikaans te noemen en als je een moslim extremist bent is dat toch wel je grote vijand nummer één lijkt mij. Maar goed het hele verhaal kan je hier terug lezen inclusief video's van de twee jongens en wat meer anti game praat.


Two British brothers were lured to fight for Isis in Syria by playing the video war game Call of Duty, their father claims.

Ahmed Muthana claims his sons Nasser, 20, and Aseel, 17, were given a copy of the game by extremists in a bid to groom them with violent fantasies.

The game, commonly referred to as CoD, is a first-person experience of warfare. In one version, players massacre civilians to infiltrate a separatist movement in the Middle East led by a leader named 'Al-Asad'.

Now, the Cardiff-born boys have joined the jihadist faction in Syria - and Mr Muthana believes the game manipulated them.

Distraught, their father claims he had always refused to buy them violent video games for fear it would affect them - and he is certain Call of Duty was used to groom them.

Mr Muthana, 57, told The Sun: 'I believe the game was bought for them by the same people who encouraged them to go to Syria.'

His claims come after British jihadist Abu Sumayyah al-Britani compared their sieges to CoD.

The father-of-three boasted that life with ISIS, who have taken control of parts of Syria and Iraq, is 'really, really fun' and 'better than that game Call of Duty.'

Psychologists warned this year that violent video games stunt the 'moral maturity' of teenagers.

Brock University in Ontario found adolescents who immerse themselves in these games are losing their sense of 'right' and 'wrong'.

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