That was the opinion provided by Iraqi Shi’ite cleric and definitively uncool grandfather figure Moqtada al-Sadr, whose majority political coalition in Iraq’s parliament decried “Fortnite” and “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds,” or PUBG, as addictive and negative influences on the youth in a letter calling for the ban of such games, according to a Reuters report.
“What will you gain if you killed one or two people in PUBG?” Sadr wrote in a statement obtained by Reuters.
Experience points, we would assume.
“It is not a game for intelligence or a military game that provides you with the correct way to fight.” (…) Officially, the ban was instituted “due to the negative effects caused by some electronic games on the health, culture, and security of Iraqi society, including societal and moral threats to children and youth,” the report said.
Video games. A threat to the security of Iraqi society.
