Instagram submits to sharia, deletes gay Muslim comic strip after Indonesia outrage

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Now Instagram joins the social media giants in enforcing sharia. Soon it will likely begin deplatforming and silencing foes of jihad terror, as they do. Having been one of the early targets of social media censorship on Facebook, YouTube et al, I have for quite some time advocated for anti-trust action against these bullying behemoths. Read my article about this at The American Thinker. We are seeing an unprecedented erosion in our First Amendment rights, increasingly prohibiting the flow of ideas and free expression in the public square (social media). Run by left-wing self-possessed snowflakes, social media giants are indulging their worst autocratic impulses. And because they can, it is getting worse. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Having grown up in the 1970s, I can tell you it was a vastly different country then. It was free. But we aren’t any no longer, and it is time we took back what is ours — our unalienable freedoms. This app is for Saudi Arabia, but it is consistent with Google’s overall policy of sharia-compliance. It will be here before too long.

“Instagram deletes gay Muslim comic strip after Indonesia outrage,” AFP, February 13, 2019 (thanks to Vikram):

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JAKARTA: Instagram on Wednesday (Feb 13) shut down an account that published comic strips about the struggles of a gay Muslim in Indonesia after it sparked a backlash in the world’s biggest Islamic nation.

The move comes after Indonesia’s communications ministry sent a letter to the social media giant warning that the “pornographic” content violated an electronic information law.

The now-deleted account, which had about 6,000 followers, published a dozen posts depicting a gay Muslim man named Alpantuni who talked about discrimination and his life in a conservative family.

“My family is very religious. I have to pray five times a day, but I’ve got a secret,” the character said in one strip that has since been deleted.

“I’m very pious in front of others, but in private I’m gay.”

Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia – except in Aceh province under the region’s Islamic law – but a backlash against the vulnerable LGBT community is growing and same-sex relationships are widely frowned upon.

The comic strip sparked heated online debate with some conservatives branding it immoral.

“Please remove this account and put whoever runs it in prison – this is indecent,” one Instagram user wrote.

“It’s not only blaspheming Islam but it is also destroying morality.”…

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Dan Knight
Dan Knight
5 years ago

Associating the word “conservative” with Muslim in English is asset-backwards.

In the West, the word “conservative” in a political-religious context means Total Evil when used by Libtards, but it means Western culture – life, liberty, freedom, the Rule of Law, truth, honesty, art, science, reason, and so on.

The Enemedia uses it in this context to smear truth-lovers and violence-haters.

Which sort of leaves all ‘good’ Muslims out of the salad.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Actually, I had that self-same thought scream at me, when I read “conservative”, and it was coming from moslems (the vilest of ALL creatures).

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
5 years ago

Easy for you to say. You’re a brainiac. The rest of us have to work at this.

Have a great weekend Achmed!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

I’m afraid that I’m more along the lines of the Scarecrow … “I would wile away the hours …” However, such is not the case. More’s the pity.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
5 years ago

Heh, heh, … it would not surprise me if you can dance and sing just as well as Ray Bolger could. You strike as one of those polymath types.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Now I gotta go git me my dictionary. Have a GREAT Sunday.

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

While unjust Muhammad ‘kissed’ penises of boys & sucked boys’ tongues & lips he also inscribed in his Sharia law to throw homosexuals off high buildings (see Wikiislam).

Malsikcuf
Malsikcuf
5 years ago
Reply to  Jay Wizzy

Only moohamdead was allowed to be gay…

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Malsikcuf

Actually, as almost all, if not ALL, moslem males are homosexuals …they simply have to learn to play by the moslem homosexual rules:
Abu Dawud (4448) – “If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death.”
Notice that there is no punishment of the boar hog (moslem male) is married to a brood sow (moslem female).
For a moslem male, outside of their bacha bazis, to openly practice homosexuality … they must first marry a brood sow (moslem female) .. Then, it’s butt-ram city.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
5 years ago

As to the censorship of a Same-sex promoting cartoon by a Social Enemedia company operating in Indonesia …

Yes we ought to do something about it, but we do not even have dominance on our home turf.

Pushing Free Speech on a global basis – which is just as a Human Rights/Civil Rights issue to frame it in Libtard terms – must be done as either a Treaty or as a Trade/Commerce deal.

And the first step would not be forced availability by location, (b/c that will never be enforced until Jesus comes home) …

But forced Accommodation on the Platform anywhere where the content is NOT illegal.

Local authorities will always demand – and retain – some level of criminalization of content. e.g. KKKiddie porn, Black Mob Violence, Criticism of President Xi, and anything that a Libtard Judge might ‘gag’ to prevent the public from knowing the extent of the perversion of the law. But we could get a strong popular backing for availability of most content most anywhere in the West – because the Left’s base does not yet know that everything they are supposed to believe is a lie.

I know – It’s a fantasy. But I still have the freedom to dream. And this idea is sufficiently close to what the drones of the West expect that we could get it if we only had a little influence to do so.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Ha, ha! Dhimmi or Comrade … same thing.

Have a great weekend!

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

They come, steal , threaten and ethnically cleanse with/without violence
https://tinyurl.com/y7yhc4dl

you cannot win unless there is organised legal /political pushback. And that
cannot happen without more ppl sharing real news that expose the truth that MSM will not cover

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felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Freedom of speech implies the right to OFFEND someone….
We are not all going to have identical views. Each one of us is distinctly unique.
In the old days we had shared values. This bizarre multiculturalism is there to destroy cohesion and shared values.

http://slideplayer.com/slide/4288349/14/images/18/First+Amendment:+Freedom+of+Speech.jpg

Silver Bullet Gun Oil
Silver Bullet Gun Oil
5 years ago

Why do lemmings jump off cliffs?
I realize the obvious answer is “Because it seemed like a good idea at the time to them ” and maybe is the only reason they do it.
I then have to ask “When is jumping off a cliff EVER a good idea”?
I also have to venture that those poor sonsabitches jumping off the WTC buildings [very,very high,with sheer cliff faces] only considered doing so because the alternative was a worse fate…….maybe.
Which then brings us back to those cliff jumping lemmings..
Semper Fi

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