Apple Bans the Quran in China
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Ergo in a world of less-than-ideal choices, the one that isn’t trying to destroy your society’s values is a better option. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and all that.
One of the most impressive PR moves the US succeeded at in the cold war was convincing the world that the Mujahadeen were freedom fighters and not thugs for rich local assholes.
Think it over: the Qur'an is sacred to 1/4 of the world, banning any holy book is PR suicide, and the Qur'an is legal in the PRC.
The developer of this Qur'an app probably tweeted this tweet in good faith, but that just makes it misinformation instead of disinformation.
what do you have to back your assertions
The other assertions I made were that 'the Qur'an is sacred to 1/4 of the world' and that 'banning any holy book is PR suicide'. I can't muster enthusiasm to defend those. They seem clear-cut to me.
As I read the original tweet, it sounded like Apple had banned the Qur'an (ie: its contents) from the its store in China. But that is the dev's conjecture. I'm sure Apple banned his/her particular Qur'an app, but there currently are too few details to know why.
He appears to not be a Chinese citizen. Foreigners are banned from engaging in a whole lot of religion-adjacent activities in China, including publishing religious texts. http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2000/content_60501.htm Article 17, item 6.
Unfortunately I seem to have turned conjecture from someone's tweet into a large thread which was the opposite of what I wanted. We have some developer's speculation and now we're all debating and theorizing about it (which why social media is a $%#* pile of rubbish).
Perhaps next week Apple Developer Relations will get back to this dev with more specifics.
Perhaps next week we'll find same is happening to other people's Qur'an apps.
But at the moment all thousands of us people discussing this tweet on social media are just bumbling around in the dark.
If Apple was interested in banning the Quran, they wouldn’t have just done it in China.
The CCP forced apple to remove the Quran from the Chinese App Store.
Canada is a country of immigrants (to some fairly large degree, anyway), and we are well into 2nd and 3rd generations of immigrants without seeing this problem.
When we do have more extremist issues, it rarely is from this part of the population. A lot of times when peaceful protests get out of hand in Canada, it is because of infiltration from groups like the "Black Bloc," which despite the name, are primarily white and often white supremists. They tend to provoke rival groups like BLM, with a special intent on smearing them, which is seen often enough in the US as well.
We have had, and probably still have some specific incidents associated with known foreign terrorist organizations, but they specifically involve the "old guard" who were not born and raised here.
UK, France and Germany each had more than 1000 citizens fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq - most of them are second gen. Most of terrorist in French terrorist attacks on 2015 were citizens of EU and second gen immigrants. I would expect situation to get much worse in the next 20-30 years unless global Islam looses steam and purpose similar to Christianity loosing them earlier in 20th century.