About the new content.....

"StrawberryYogurt;c-17231967" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-17231962" wrote:

Who knows, but by naming it by its religious aspect they did label it. That, I agree with the OP, was not necessary at all.

But it doesnt say muslim in game anywhere right? Just in the patch description? Along with muslim-inspired. May not seem necessary but why cover it up?

In the holiday dlc, isnt there a "winter tree" + christmas-inspired items included? Though there are other items which are explicitly named to the real world in that dlc, like the menorah

Edit:

Actually the say it explicitly
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/holiday-update-in-Sims-4

So theres already religion / religion inspired objects in the game and in the series as a whole

If Christmas would be purely Christian you’d be right. It isn’t though. I’ve celebrated Christmas all my life with the items in there and I’m not religious. Christmas tree, the snow ‘pal’, the hat of Father Christmas (Coca Cola anyone?), not religious. I see no cross, I see no crib, I see no star of Bethlehem, all the Christmas items connected to Christianity are not there actually, only the ones connected to Yule. Kwanzaa I read on Wikipedia is no religion, it’s a feast based on African culture.

I’m all for the hijab in the game by the way, because I’m convinced many girls who play the game weren’t able to play sims looking (dressing) the way they did. But I don’t understand, like the OP, why they presented it by its religious name when that could have been easily avoided. The way they’ve avoided that all those years. That’s all.

Don’t want to drag this discussion into religion by the way, because it’s against forum rules and topics have been closed already. The reason that’s very hard in this case is on EA though, not on us.