ABSTRACT
The 26-year-old Dutch gamer Samir is still shocked by the reaction and outcry regarding his fan movie, “SonicJihad: A Day in the Life of a Resistance Fighter.”1
After all, he created his video using only material and elements drawn from the first-person shooter (FPS) PC game Battlefield 2 (2005) and its expansion pack Battlefield 2:Special Forces (2005). On December 26, 2005, Samir posted the movie on a much-frequented message board of one of the many online Battlefield communities, with the caveat: “Don’t see it as a jihadi movie, but as a comical look at the other side . . .” (SonicJihad, 2005).
