Google Hosts App for Enforcing Sharia, Reporting Blasphemy
The app is not designed to enforce Sharia since Indonesia recognizes Islam as one of six religions that it will accept. Your title should be that it was designed to report blasphemy and atheism...there was no mention of the word Sharia at all...
"Indonesia officially recognises six religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Its blasphemy law makes it illegal to promote any other religion or belief system. Supporting atheism is effectively banned. The punishment for infringing these laws is up to five years in prison."
Google the phrase I used, you'll find dozens of reports going in to more details pointing out this is a Sharia app.
I linked to secularism.org because that is where I found the story.
@LenHazell53 So you linked something that did not apply thinking no one was going to read it? And now that I re-read your post, I guess what you were saying is that you find it appalling that Muslims themselves are reporting each other? Yeah, I guess that would be like Christians reporting each other...and both reporting atheists....ugh.
@thinktwice I find it appalling that Google are so unthinkingly money grabbing that they are willing to profit off an app designed to allow busy body religious lunatics to send neo nazi style holy death and torture police after people who are simply exercising their right to think in order to buy their way in to the dream of an after life.
It is just a bit too reminiscent of Orwell's 1984, where the father is so proud his daughter reported him to the party head quarters for condemning the party while talking in his sleep.
@LenHazell53 Yes..that part we agree on...I mistook your post to be against Islam, which is the religion of many of my friends and neighbors...I see now your objection to any freedom to workship as one wishes...my apologies for gut reacting...
@thinktwice My life long best friend is a Muslim, however I still have the same respect for Islam as as I do for Christianity, Judaism and any other delusion of godhead and afterlife, which is none what so ever.
When anyone of any "faith" is willing to put the feelings of their imaginary friend above the well being of real people the no longer deserve respect either.
@LenHazell53 I get it...your original post was not clear of your intended message...I am glad you cleared it up...