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عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Hari ini, Admin mahu kongsi satu artikel dalam bahasa
Inggeris. Dan YANG PALING BEST, artikel pasal GAME. Rasanya, kaum Adam dan Hawa
mesti ada minta terhadap game; tidak kira dalam platform apa. Tapi tahukah anda
dalam game ada unsur – unsur sensitif? Artikel di bawah ada serta beberapa GAME
yang dikira sebagai POPULAR di kalangan peminat-peminat GAMING. Sama-sama kita
fikirkan.
p/s: Admin malas nak terjemah.
Shooting the Arabs: How video games perpetuate Muslim
stereotypes
"Muslim blood is the cheapest in the world."
Khaled Al-Asad from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Islam has an image problem. And it's not just recent world
events that have led to an undue level of scrutiny and prejudice. The media has
been pigeonholing Muslims for years. You need only watch a few episodes of 24
or Homeland to see that Muslims, particularly those of Arab descent, are
almost always painted as the enemy.
"The current political and cultural climate is the
reason in media we are the bad guys right now," said Rami Ismail, a
co-founder of Vlambeer, an independent game studio based in the Netherlands.
The same broad brush, he says, applies to video games too.
The Call of Duty
franchise, for example, is rife with Muslim villains -- like Khaled Al-Asad in Modern
Warfare. "That's Call of Duty, over and over. Shoot all the
Arabs," said Ismail. "Muslim blood is the cheapest in the
world."
Ismail spoke last week on a panel at the annual Game
Developers Conference about Muslim representation in video games. The
presentation's tone was a sombre one. "The current election has been
fueled by certain prejudices," said Imad Khan, a freelance journalist for
the Daily Dot who moderated the panel. "There have been some latent
animosity that has erupted in the past year leading to untoward criticism and
actual violence."
"We are often just reduced to four or five
stereotypes," said Dr. Romana Ramzan, a game design lecturer at Glasgow
Caledonian University in the UK. "It's usually summed up by the clothes we
wear. So if you're a woman, you wear a hijab [...] If you're a man, you have a
beard or wear your national dress." She added that Muslims are also often
portrayed as aggressive and violent. "In games, we will be represented as
the 'other' people who are the ones you have to kill. Usually it's a slightly
dark-skinned character shouting Allahu Akbar, carrying an AK-47. Or he
has a camel or a goat."
When asked about the appearance of seemingly Muslim characters in fighting games like Zafina from Tekken 6, Ramzan said that her real issue is that a Muslim doesn't look like any one particular person. Muslims are not necessarily Arab, and Arabs are not necessarily Muslim.
"Why do we need to be represented by our faith?" she asks. "Why can't we be represented by our nationalities? Why can't it be what might a female from Pakistan look like, or from Lebanon, or Tunisia? We are all so diverse. No one's really sitting around thinking what does a Christian character look like." She gave an example of when she visited Morocco, and she saw women who were fully clothed from head to toe, and she also saw women who wore backless dresses and miniskirts. "It doesn't make them non-Muslims. It's just the way they are."
When asked about the appearance of seemingly Muslim characters in fighting games like Zafina from Tekken 6, Ramzan said that her real issue is that a Muslim doesn't look like any one particular person. Muslims are not necessarily Arab, and Arabs are not necessarily Muslim.
"Why do we need to be represented by our faith?" she asks. "Why can't we be represented by our nationalities? Why can't it be what might a female from Pakistan look like, or from Lebanon, or Tunisia? We are all so diverse. No one's really sitting around thinking what does a Christian character look like." She gave an example of when she visited Morocco, and she saw women who were fully clothed from head to toe, and she also saw women who wore backless dresses and miniskirts. "It doesn't make them non-Muslims. It's just the way they are."
"Muslim is not a people," Ismail said. "It's
1.6 billion people across the world with various nationalities, backgrounds,
languages. Not all Muslims speak Arabic." For example, Ismail said, the
world's largest Muslim nation is Indonesia, which is not anywhere near the
Middle East. "People just don't realize that."
It's not just the portrayal of Muslims that is problematic. In several video games, images of the Arab and Muslim world are often inaccurate. The above screenshot of Karachi in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, for example, has Arabic written over it. But Arabic isn't spoken in Pakistan, which is where Karachi is located. In fact, Pakistanis speak mostly in English and Urdu. Farah Khalaf, a Palestinian-Iraqi game developer from New Zealand, said that she often wishes games would depict Middle Eastern cities as they really are, instead of sandy deserts. "If you show people an image of Beirut, they'll be surprised that it's modern!"
Still, video game portrayals of Muslims aren't all bad. Khan says Ubisoft did a good job with Assassin's Creed's Altair character. "It's this story of this orphan, who grew up in the Assassin Order. I thought it was really well done." It also portrayed Istanbul as a vibrant, gleaming city and featured a couple of historical characters like Suleiman the Magnificent and Selim II from the Ottoman Empire. Even Assassin's Creed wasn't completely free from error, however. Ismail pointed out it was odd to find out that Altair's father had the same last name (Ibn-La'Ahad) as him, since having the same name as your parents goes against Arabic naming conventions. Khan thought that was surprising, considering everything else in the game was well researched.
It's not just the portrayal of Muslims that is problematic. In several video games, images of the Arab and Muslim world are often inaccurate. The above screenshot of Karachi in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, for example, has Arabic written over it. But Arabic isn't spoken in Pakistan, which is where Karachi is located. In fact, Pakistanis speak mostly in English and Urdu. Farah Khalaf, a Palestinian-Iraqi game developer from New Zealand, said that she often wishes games would depict Middle Eastern cities as they really are, instead of sandy deserts. "If you show people an image of Beirut, they'll be surprised that it's modern!"
Still, video game portrayals of Muslims aren't all bad. Khan says Ubisoft did a good job with Assassin's Creed's Altair character. "It's this story of this orphan, who grew up in the Assassin Order. I thought it was really well done." It also portrayed Istanbul as a vibrant, gleaming city and featured a couple of historical characters like Suleiman the Magnificent and Selim II from the Ottoman Empire. Even Assassin's Creed wasn't completely free from error, however. Ismail pointed out it was odd to find out that Altair's father had the same last name (Ibn-La'Ahad) as him, since having the same name as your parents goes against Arabic naming conventions. Khan thought that was surprising, considering everything else in the game was well researched.
Assassin Creed
Another example of a positive portrayal of a Muslim
character is Faridah Malik in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. She's a
chief helicopter pilot described as a third-generation American born in
Dearborn, Michigan, who's also a faithful practicing Muslim. Ismail does think
she fits the stereotype of the "Good Muslim" -- oh, she's Westernized
and therefore she must be good -- but likes the character nonetheless.
Khan also singled out upcoming titles like The Sun Also
Rises (about civilians caught in the Afghan war), Dujanah (the story
of a girl living in a Muslim country) and Saudi Girls Revolution (where
the main characters are female motorcycle heroes who drive across
post-apocalyptic Saudi Arabia) that show a different side of the Muslim world.
The last in particular is a game developed by a Saudi prince, which Ismail said
could inspire change.
"The industry just needs greater diversity," said
Rahman. "We're not going to be telling interesting narratives without
it."
Ismail agrees. "Diversity is number one. If you're
going to make a game about a country, talk to somebody from that country. If
you're going to have a foreign language, have someone who can read it. If
you're going to have a religion in the game, get someone who understands
it."
"These are very simple things," he said.
"Just be a human being."
Kredit pada penulis EnGadget.
السلام عليكم و مساء الخير
Admin sebenarnya baru sahaja cuba untuk membongkar ‘rahsia-rahsia’
dalam blog ini.Terlalu banyak benda dan juga ‘setting-setting’ yang
kurang admin faham, jadi admin rasa admin kena korbankan sedikit masa untuk
meneliti benda-benda moden dalam blog ini.Harap maklum.
Ok..admin ada sesuatu yang sangat menarik untuk dikongsikan
kepada para pembaca sekalian.Dalam beberapa bulan yang lepas, Admin ternampak
satu ‘entry’ dalam website al-Siraat dari UK yang membuatkan Admin rasa
kagum.Oleh kerana website tu dalam bahasa Inggeris, Admin akan cuba terjemahkan
sebetul yang boleh.
Raja China menulis satu syair yang memuji tentang Nabi kita
SAW. Pelik bukan?( bagi yang tidak tahu sebab Admin sendiri tak tahu ).
Bagaimana seorang Raja dari China mengetahui tentang keperibadian Baginda
tidaklah Admin tahu . Berikut adalah sejarah hidup Raja tersebut :
Hong-Wu (juga dikenali dengan namanya diberikan Zhu Yuanzhang) adalah seorang Maharaja China antara tahun 1368-1398 CE. Beliau merupakan orang pertama Maharaja Dinasti Ming, mengetuai tentera yang menakluk negara ini dan menewaskan Mongol yang dipimpin Dinasti Yuan.
Walaupun bukan Islam, Hong-Wu mengarahkan pembinaan beberapa buah masjid di Nanjing, Yunnan, Guangdong dan Fujian. Beliau membina semula Masjid Jinjue di Nanjing dan sejumlah besar Hui (Cina Muslim) berpindah ke bandar semasa pemerintahannya.
Beliau mempunyai kira-kira 10 jeneral Muslim dalam tentera, termasuk Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu, Ding Dexing, Mu Ying, Feng Sheng dan Hu Dahai. Di samping itu, pasangan Hong-Wu, Empress Ma, berasal dari keluarga Islam walhal pada asalnya beliau adalah seorang anggota kumpulan pemberontak Islam yang diketuai oleh Guo Zhixin.
Maharaja Hong-Wu menulis sajak pujian 100 perkataan memuji Islam, Allah dan Nabi Muhammad yang diletakkan di masjid-masjid beliau perintahkan supaya dibina.
Berikut adalah
gambar dalam bahasa cina :
The One-Hundred
Word Eulogy:
Since the creation
of the Universe,
God had decreed to appoint,
This great faith-preaching man,
From the West he was born,
He received the Holy Scripture,
A Book of thirty parts,
To guide all creation,
Master of all Rulers,
Leader of Holy Ones,
With Support from Above,
To Protect His Nation,
With five daily prayers,
Silently hoping for peace,
His heart towards Allah,
Empowering the poor,
Saving them from calamity,
Seeing through the darkness,
Pulling souls and spirits,
Away from all wrongdoings,
A Mercy to the Worlds,
Traversing the ancient majestic path,
Vanquishing away all evil,
His Religion Pure and True,
Muhammad,
The Noble & Great one
God had decreed to appoint,
This great faith-preaching man,
From the West he was born,
He received the Holy Scripture,
A Book of thirty parts,
To guide all creation,
Master of all Rulers,
Leader of Holy Ones,
With Support from Above,
To Protect His Nation,
With five daily prayers,
Silently hoping for peace,
His heart towards Allah,
Empowering the poor,
Saving them from calamity,
Seeing through the darkness,
Pulling souls and spirits,
Away from all wrongdoings,
A Mercy to the Worlds,
Traversing the ancient majestic path,
Vanquishing away all evil,
His Religion Pure and True,
Muhammad,
The Noble & Great one
P/S : Menarik bukan?kredit kepada penulis asal entry ini.
Terima Kasih.^^
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Setelah sekian lama menyepi ( padahal tak tahu pun blog sendiri wujud ), barulah ada masa untuk menaip sesuatu pada blog ini..doakan agar admin boleh meneruskan nukilan admin..tidak kira subjek yang ingin cuba diketengahkan..moga-moga sedikit sebanyak dapat membantu meningkatkan pengetahuan kita terhadap common sense case..^^..salam pengenalan dari admin..
شكرا على حسن انتظاركم
