Activision Removes Quran References in Call of Duty: Vanguard Zombies Mode

Phone call of Duty: Vanguard players have run into several references to the Muslim holy text in the game's Zombies manner. Several players plant pages of the book scattered beyond the flooring in one of the game mode's maps. While this reference might seem inoffensive to some, it is pretty disrespectful for Muslims to detect pages of their holy book stained with claret and scattered across the floor. As such, players made their concerns known to Activision and they promptly responded.

Below, you can see screenshots and video captured past the beginning person to catch the Quran references:

مقطع فديو عشان محد يقول فبركة #No_Call_of_Duty flick.twitter.com/0GSRXDwB3Q

— ᴮᴷᵀᴼᴼᴿ (@BKTO0R) Nov x, 2021

Needless to say, outrage surrounding the inclusion of the holy text occurred. The user who found this urged the Call of Duty team to remove the content from the game. Soon after, many users started tagging the Call of Duty Twitter page to ask to remove the text's references.

Before long plenty, a hotfix was issued for Call of Duty: Vanguard, which removed the Quran references from the Zombies mode. This hotfix was followed with a statement from Activision made in Phone call of Duty Heart East's Twitter account, which translated shows the post-obit:

Activision has now addressed some insensitive content referring to the Quran that was establish in-game in Vanguard zombies. pic.twitter.com/qCvYlQFk5c

— MW2 OG (@TheMW2Ghost) Nov 11, 2021

As The Gamer'south article pointed out, there are almost two billion Muslims in the world - nearly a quarter of the world'south population. The majority of them live exterior the Middle East. Republic of indonesia, Pakistan, India, People's republic of bangladesh, and Nigeria take the five largest Muslim populations globally.

As such, using a Heart East-specific account to apologize is profoundly ignorant. Since it only responds to a small-scale sector of the population that holds the Muslim creed. And then once more, it'south the aforementioned company that thinks people tin can look away from years of abusive practices just because the CEO accepted a lower salary.

Listen you; this isn't the first time a religious text is found in Call of Duty'southward maps. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the Favela map has scriptures from the volume etched into the frame of a painting in a bathroom. This, of course, was found equally an inappropriate place to notice the text. The map was subsequently removed altogether following backfire.

Call of Duty: Vanguard is currently available on PC, Xbox Series 10|South, Xbox One PlayStation four, and PlayStation v.