Fatwa App: Apple won’t drop Muslim Brotherhood app that incites to hatred and genocide

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I live under a death fatwa — there’s an app for that.

Apple refuses to withdraw Fatwa app alleged to feature antisemitic rhetoric

Apple urged to drop app with ties to ‘antisemitic’ Muslim Brotherhood

The Euro Fatwa, condemned as ‘a disaster waiting to happen’, is among Apple’s top 100 most popular downloads

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Apple has been urged to remove an app on its platform created by a group with links to the Muslim Brotherhood, over concerns it is used to foster hate.

The Euro Fatwa app, as first reported by UAE newspaper The National, is currently available as a free download on the App Store and Google Play.

Google reportedly banned the app in May, according to multiple media reports but it is now available on its platform.

It is available in Arabic, Spanish and English and claims to help the community “fulfil their duties as Muslim citizens.”

It was created by the European Council for Fatwa and Research, a Muslim rule-making body set up by clerics with ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement.

Among them, Yussuf al-Qaradawi, 92, who founded the organisation, is banned from entering Britain, France and the US due to his extremist views. He is considered to be one of the spiritual leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Qaradawi’s statements have elicited wide condemnations in the past, including his support for suicide bombers to attack Israelis and the claim the murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany was “divine punishment”.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which has a membership of nearly one million people, claims it is a non-violent organisation and refutes allegations of extremism.

However the Home Office considers membership of the movement as a possible indicator of extremism and continues to keep the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities under review following a consultation in 2015, which found aspects of the movement’s ideology and tactics as “contrary to our fundamental values”.

Last month, President Trump announced his administration was working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation. Meanwhile, according to the Anti-Defamation League, leading figures in the Muslim Brotherhood have publicly promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Ghanem Nuseibeh, chair of Muslims Against Antisemitism, shared a screenshot earlier this year of a now-deleted introduction by Qaradawi on the app containing a derogatory reference to Jews.

The statement, which is no longer available on the app, said: “Muslims became a disgrace to Islam and have acted similarly to the Jews who decreed it was correct to steal.”

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Nuseibeh this week called for the app to be removed from platforms, saying: “The Muslim Brotherhood and its spiritual leader Qaradawi have been responsible for spreading more antisemitism than any other group among Muslim communities.

“There is no point banning people like Qaradawi from entering Europe or Britain if their preaching is so accessible to ordinary Muslims.”

A spokesperson for Apple said in a statement: “We put great effort into curating the App Store to provide the very best experience for everyone.

“Our guidelines require that apps don’t contain upsetting or offensive content, ensuring the App Store is a safe marketplace for all. We reviewed the app and did not find a violation of our guidelines.”

Amid concerns about online extremism, the Government published a White Paper in April setting out plans to establish in law a new duty of care on companies  overseen by an independent regulator.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “The Government has been clear that tech companies need to act more quickly to stop the spread of hate, both online and offline.

” We are consulting on proposals for the statutory duty of care to apply to companies and other bodies that allow users to share or discover user-generated content or interact with each other online.”

The European Council for Fatwa and Research have been contacted for comment.

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

G20 meeting today
– why only 20 countries?
– UN has about 200
– 200 minus 20 = 180 tyrant countries
– most are tyrant socialists or tyrant Islamists
– 180 subjugated, poor, sick, hopeless countries
– ALL ruled by tyrant oligarch power circles
– that grab all the power and money
– and subjugate their citizenry
– and yet we KNOW how to fix those 180 countries
– example: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Argentina
– could be fixed by implementing
– the democratic free-enterprise constitutional republic
– and Pamela Geller
– has taught us how to do that

Still Out of Service
Still Out of Service
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

INFO:

There are 195 countries in the world today. This total comprises 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine.

Not in the list

Not included in this total count of 195 countries are:

Taiwan – the United Nations considers it represented by the People’s Republic of China

The Cook Islands and Niue,

both states in free association with New Zealand which are members of

several UN specialized agencies and have been recognized “full

treaty-making capacity”, but are neither member states nor non-member

observer states.

Dependencies (or dependent territories, dependent areas, dependencies) and Areas of Special Sovereignty (autonomous territories)

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

How do they handle Cyprus? Is the part of Cyprus that was invaded, annexed and ethnically cleansed by the f’ing Turkish muslums given a seat on the UN?

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

Muh:
– when approx 180 UN countries are tyrant states
– then nothing will be done democratically

Still Out of Service
Still Out of Service
4 years ago

the Republic of Cyprus is a member of the UN

Following the threats by Turkey against
Cyprus, the Government of the Republic brought the matter to the UN
Security Council. The Security Council unanimously adopted resolution
186 of 4 March 1964, whose basic principles have guided international
actions on Cyprus ever since:

– Established the UN
Secretary-General’s mission of good offices aiming at a peaceful
solution on the basis of an agreed agreement in accordance with the UN
Charter

– Created UNFICYP, the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus

– Reaffirmed the sovereignty and continuing existence of the Republic of Cyprus

– Reaffirmed the continuity of the government of the Republic of Cyprus

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Empty UN affirmations certainly didn’t help the non-muslim Cypriots when the f’ing Turkish muslum vermin invaded, annexed and ethnically cleansed 40% of Cyprus in the 1970’s.

Still Out of Service
Still Out of Service
4 years ago

the un, doing what the un does best……………

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

Still Out: Thnx for those details
– and notice that most of those small countries
– are poor, sick, and badly run
– and conform closely to he the tyrant and oligarch city states
– described by Aristotle
– and could be fixed completely
– by conversion to the democratic free-enterprise
– constitutional republic
– Aristotle even examined all the existing constitutions
– he could find, including states like Sparta, Carthage, Phoenicia, etc.

Still Out of Service
Still Out of Service
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

……….what does Aristotle say today?

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

What does the Bible still say today?
– some messages hold up well over time

Still Out of Service
Still Out of Service
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

even ‘the devil’ quotes the bible

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

Yes, but you live by the 10 commandments

Still Out of Service
Still Out of Service
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

no, I don’t

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

The Athenians voted away their democracy in favour of the benevolent(?) tyrant Philip of Macedon. Demosthenes wrote his famous Philippics in opposition to King Philip. Maybe someone should write Philippics in opposition to the f’ing muslums and their death cult.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

I think Aristotle did do that
– his book ‘Politics’ is concerned with how tyrants achieve and retain power
– and also touches upon their overthrow
– and all Muslim leaders are tyrants
– and notice that ‘benevolent tyrant’ is an empty category
– because tyrants, by definition, work for their own benefit
– and the subjugation of the citizenry is always beneficial to the tyrant

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

All of MSM are like this. Anti-American. I believe what MS said, so the rich can be left alone and feel safe anywhere they go. So they become appeasers and as Churchill stated, they might become the last one the alligators will eat.

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
4 years ago

Think about this article the next time your thinking of buying an Apple product. You have the power. It is time for the Muslim Brotherhood to be labeled the terrorist group they are and they should add silicon valley to the list as well!

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

enemy inside

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

I wonder…is there a viable alternative to the iphone? Can caring people just drop Apple? How about protesting outside Apple shops? Honestly, I’m so sick of this.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

So much pandering to Islam, on so many levels, everywhere in our society. Sigh.

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