Western law making, free speech and philosophy 101 then.
Your flag says Pakistan so I will try to work with that. I am not so familiar with the legal systems there, however I know they are broadly similar to a lot of states that have Islam as a key driver of the legal logic there and those I am somewhat more familiar with, that and many of the tenets of Islamic jurisprudence (there are some important differences between the schools, and obviously between sunni, shia and all the others but not enough for the purposes of this discussion, certainly not on the matter of... the integrity of the religion for want of a better term).
The integrity of Islam then, and this is probably more for others reading than for you. For many outside Islam it has some quite strange features, features not seen in the dominant religions of those countries. For one the whole thing with trying to keep the Arabic needed to speak and read the Quran is actually largely unknown outside it, it is one I considered doomed to failure (fighting the change of language* has never worked in history and unless we stop the march of technology it never will). Secondly all that most ever meet of the problems with quoting the Quran piecemeal is when someone gets it, thinks that's a nice quote and copy-pastes it into a banner, advert, a game texture or something and it all kicks off. Within most other religions they will quote single verses/phrases all day long and consider it a good thing, and quote them at anybody in almost any context. I understand the reasoning for this, and without something being in context and taken as part of a larger work you can have some very strange things happen. Going further the position that Muhammed occupies within Islam (and this is why my merging all the schools above is really going to start to break down) is also poorly understood, and amusingly the "and Muhammed is his prophet" part of the Shahada creed does not help it be more understood, I will spare us my personal analysis of the position he takes beyond saying I can understand why Islam was often translated as or called Muhammedism.
Western philosophy and law making is obviously a big topic and much like merging all the schools of jurisprudence above merging the legal philosophies. In the US though there is a concept called free speech which is very highly regarded in law, in the US you will tend to hear it in terms of the first amendment to the US constitution and as such it is not rare at all to find a lawyer specialising in the first amendment.
Even with that mocking a religion does not necessarily make you big or clever, however the notion of a government stepping in and saying no is fundamentally wrong to people that agree with the systems underpinning the free speech laws. A phrase that handily summarises it is "I may not agree with what you are saying but I will defend your right to say it to the death". Islam is also a culture/legal system/philosophy that is used to getting its own way, or being a minority religion somewhere is something it is not used to. This can cause some massive culture clashes and this would be an example of one of them. Another important part of US law is the separation of church and state where "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" so blocking it would not only be against free speech but to do it on behalf of a religion would also breach another fundamental part of US law. You say hate as well and hate has special meanings under law, making a game merely featuring a character from a philosophy/mythology is anything but hate. What qualifies as hate has some fuzzy edges but it is broadly things which advocate for harming those of a religion, culture, philosophy, race or similar thing and having a character from a religion in a game is not even close, going further to even try to describe it as hate in the legal sense would be considered disingenuous, intellectually dishonest or at very least massive overreaction.
Finally "Create your own damn characters". Nah the remix is king. Also Islam does it well enough, and that is even before whether we consider whether Dhul-Qarnayn is about Alexander the Great.
*choice video, I could have done one for Islam but an utterly different context works well here
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