Islamic Fun (also known as Islamic Fun!) is a 1999 religious and educational video game, consisting of six minigames targeted at children. The game was developed by the United Kingdom-based firm Innovative Minds. The game is notable for the controversy generated by "The Resistance" minigame, which allowed players to throw rocks at Israeli tanks upon correctly answering trivia. The game's message was supported by Innovative Minds' "Boycott Israel" page and campaign, which aims to raise awareness about the treatment of Palestinians in Israel. Development Design The subgenre of religious educational video game usually consists of simple games targeted to a young audience, with uncomplicated plots and goals, and with the main purpose of teaching players about the main principles of that particular faith. While the purpose of such games are religious education, some of the context and ideology behind them, which view certain political events through the value-laden prism of a specific group, may prove to be problematic to other faiths. In creating the game, Innovative Minds was unconcerned with this and instead focused their efforts on designing an educational game with colourful animation and sound effects that would teach players about Islamic [Surah] and ahādīth. Innovative Minds' stated educational goal for the game is to "offer Muslim-inspired children's video games and other resources online in order to strengthen users' knowledge about Islam", including to encourage a better understanding of Islam in the West. In the case of "The Resistance", the game's authors argue that it was "designed to respond to Zionist expansion and aggression". Release and aftermath The game was released in 1999, and sold from a suburban home in Crawley, West Sussex. The game marketed itself as a Muslim alternative to secular video games. The game only became noticed by the Jewish community over three years after being originally produced in December 2001, after Innovative Minds boycotted Israeli goods on their website. The Board of Deputies of British Jews investigated the legal status of the game in the hopes of making it illegal, but were advised by lawyers there is no current legislation to make this possible. Panjwani noted that as a result of the boycott, his family had received violent threats, abusive phone calls, several hundred hate e-mails a day, and threats against their website's host providers, and commented that "this matter of the game [Islamic Fun] is the latest of a whole series of abuse we