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Indonesia Moves To Ban Same-Sex Emojis On Messaging Apps (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Indonesian government has this week demanded that instant messaging apps available in the country remove all same-sex emoticons from their platforms, or face heavy sanctions. While homosexuality is not illegal in the country, it remains a controversial issue in the Muslim-dominated country. Now in the latest effort to crackdown on gay rights, Indonesian authorities want to ban emojis, stickers and emoticons which depict same-sex couples, the rainbow flag, and any symbol that symbolises the lesbian, bay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Apps that have been targeted by the demands include the popular Asian messaging app LINE, Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter. The Indonesian Communication and Information Ministry added that a particular concern was that children would find the bright coloured stickers appealing.
It's OK for non-whites to be homophobic.
SJWs have lower standards for non-whites, especially if the homophobes are Islamic - because the SJWs are awfully quiet when Islamic "culture" says EXECUTING gays is OK.
Hell, if you're Islamic you can be misogynistic, too.
I am not talking about Muslims in general, because generalizations are impossible, but Islam itself is founded on some deep insecurities of men.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
I'd say it's a good thing.
You did mean that they'll eventually ban all emojis, right?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Hmm... 72 virgins... a 90s LAN party?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Actually, they should get along pretty well.
Dawkins help us if they ever find out how much they have in common and stop shooting each other.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Religious nutjobs create law without any connection to reality. Film at 11.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Hmmm ... let's see ... wants to define what others can do based on their own religion ... are 100% convinced of their right to do so ... wish to impose own standards of decency/morality on the rest of the world whether the rest of the world likes it or not ... thinks the rest of the world needs to let them do as they please while refusing to respect other beliefs ... wants their religion taught in school and to supersede science and facts ... firmly think god is personally on their side and can do no wrong.
It's hard to see how they're that much different.
Of course, they'll claim it's entirely different, because they're the True Believers and everyone else is wrong. And in the process will prove the point through a level of irony neither can appreciate.
Why, you'd think anybody who values freedom, free speech, liberty, and the right of self determination would immediately start sending out as many homojis as they could find to defend such censorship and imposition of lack of freedom on the world.
(And I hereby grant homojis to the world to use freely and without license ;-)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
This article is about yet another Muslim country implementing homophobic laws, and half of the comments are already immediately teeing off on Christianity without even a nod to the article itself. Nothing constructive or insightful . . . just an attempt to deflect and scream "but the other team is even worse!" Fuck you . . . you're not helping.
The claim is men that martyr themselves get 72 virgins when they die.
I've never understood the appeal for this. I mean, it's the afterlife. I would assume that STD's are no longer an issue. I would think that two ridiculously attractive whores would be preferable.
Or maybe we've really misunderstood the true meaning of this. Perhaps Islam is really opposed to martyrdom. It could be such a bad thing in Islam that if you do so, you will nagged for all eternity by 72 women with whom you can never have sex.
What do the women get when they martyr themselves?
They get to be one of the 72 women who nag some stupid man to insanity for all of time. Hell, there's 72 of them and not an AK47 in site. They can stone him to death over and over.
Claim your dog is telling you the truth of the universe and how life should be run, they lock you up in a mental institution. Claim your "god" is doing the same thing and get tax exempt status...
Here's a fun question: Would you rather live in a society dominated by Judeo-Christian values, or Islamic ones?
But I guess false equivalency is more comforting, no?
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
They're worried children will turn gay because they like rainbows? I'm in awe.
Whatever happened to live and let live?
That is not a thing in fundamentalist religious nations.
Wow, it's 2016 and we're still worried about what the sky wizard thinks about where penises are or are not going. Really, this is what this is about. Let's also consider this a country whose women for the most part (97.5%) get to enjoy the practice of getting their clitorises cut off. Let that fact detonate in your brain.
Fuck these asshats and their shitty religious ideas.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Sanity is defined by the norm. Since a large proportion of the human population believes in some kind of god, it's considered normal and sane. Because few people believe in aliens or unicorns, people who do are considered to have some kind of problem or flaw.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC