Such a sad comment. That is like saying that film should only be for entertainment, or books should only be for entertainment.

There are many people out there developing games that would disagree with you and point you to a variety of games that express a political opinion.

While I don't agree with banning the game, I think outing it for what it is would be enough; you have to keep in mind that this "political opinion" is promoting ethnic cleansing, or the removal of a minority population.

Some governments do not tolerate that sort of rhetoric, Canada being one of them.

I'm sure their are developers or games out their who take care of a clean political expression. The game first appeared in swiss as an "answer" on the Minaret debate some people took it as offense and some as irony. So and now comes a right-sided political party and takes the game for a campaign against immigration.

I'm not a Muslim and i really don't care about different beliefs. But what i hate is intolerance against any different beliefs. Christians are allowed to build churches anywhere they want, in most countries everyone is allowed to create his own belief no matter how dangerous it could be but Muslims aren't allowed to build minarets.

Every culture has his black-sheeps no matter in what they believe but since 9/11 every Muslim is a terrorist for us and so we have to ban them from anywhere.

And thats why i think the ban of this game is justified. Transporting a message like that is far from any consistence or justice.

I feel offended by muslims, can i ban anything that offends me?

"Sensibilities" of this kind are dangerous game to play the "i ban ... because this... offends me"

Canada has laws against hate speech and it would apply in this scenario. Any speech, text, video or any medium promoting hate, ethnic cleansing, etc. would be considered hate speech.

While such laws can be argued as an infringement on rights, you can't compare it to Mass Effect for the reasons you stated.

Full agreement with Amir. Hate crime trumps freedom of speech. The game should be banned.

While I generally approve of Canada's hate speech laws, based on the information presented here I'm not sure that there would be sufficient grounds to bring legal action against its creators. I believe the game would have to *explicitly* promote harming real people in order for it to run afoul of the law. It's possible that this game does, but the article here doesn't give enough info to say.

True, one should reserve judgment until all the facts are in.

Still, the game involves violence to a targeted religion, without any context such as a historical war, to justify it. That targeted violence, combined with a real-world political anti-immigration message, seems on pretty shaky ground.

I'm also naturally suspicious of anything supported by Neo-Nazis.

You are right. In Canada it covers things that promote "genocide" (at best this can be argued as promoting ethnic cleansing) and "hate" (at best this can be argued as promoting intolerance)...so it would have to be a stretch to apply censorship to this in Canada.

But I do think that a message coming from a political party (who may in turn have the legal power to ethnically cleanse) may make it more dangerous.