Haji Counterstrike
Jan 19th, 2008 by ashwin
Little Arab kids’ll loose sleep over it. Late at night, lying in their beds, they’ll replay the game in their head. Every mistake mangled and magnified by over-joysticked thumbs. Every last instruction recanted with the tireless devotion of a…
Wait a minute — a good muslim?
That’s the hope at least. Developers and businessmen from across the Middle East are banding together to create a fun, virtual experience of Muslim pilgrimage — e-hajj we’ll call it. It’ll come complete, I’m assuming, with dozens of levels: haggling with street side squakers, symbolic stoning of the devil, you know, only the good stuff.
And the parents, they’ll love it. “W00T!,” they’ll shout from the couch. “You chowned that morning prayer, son. Now keep going — Allah’s so close I can feel it…”
