There's a couple of clever clues you see. You may notice that Islam uses a crescent moon as their symbol. As a white guy from Mississippi, I have cunningly figured out that this represents the moon. Which means that they worship the moon, just like us X-tians worship the cross.
There's rightwing conspiracies about Islam being a lunar cult, so all we need is the "ninja" part
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins
Assassins originated from the word “hashashin”, a Muslim group that killed while high on hashish
oh god oh fuck
In hindsight it's pretty wild that one of the largest game franchises out there started with a game where you literally played a Muslim terrorist.
None of the random americans that were the target audience could figure out what assassins creed was actually about so it skated by
lunar cult? lunar-based cult?
There's a couple of clever clues you see. You may notice that Islam uses a crescent moon as their symbol. As a white guy from Mississippi, I have cunningly figured out that this represents the moon. Which means that they worship the moon, just like us X-tians worship the cross.
Liberals will try to convince you that Muslims summoning the moon to crush us all in a big ritual is of no concern
turns out Nintendo did depict Muhammad one time and no one really noticed because they were too busy arguing that OoT was still better