Activision apologises as Call of Duty: Vanguard removes bloodstained Quran pages

Call of Duty: Vanguard has not impressed so far, and has now stumbled into a controversy over a thoughtless use of the Quran. The holy text of Islam, the Quran is considered by many Muslims to be the literal word of god and, as such, disrespecting it in any way is considered an insult. In Vanguard’s Zombies mode, during a section where the player is going through Stalingrad, pages of the Quran are scattered on the floor and in some cases stained with blood.

The issue seems to have been noticed by Twitter user BKTO0R, who shared several images of the map with their comments in Arabic. A machine translation of the words is: “Brothers, I see pages of the Qur’an on the ground in the zombie map. I see that it should be removed as soon as possible if it is correct.”