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That would be outrageous if it were true, which it almost certainly is not. Think it over: the Qur'an is sacred to 1/4 of the world, banning any holy book is P

That would be outrageous if it were true, which it almost certainly is not. 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.

webmobdev 5y ago
I can understand your disbelief. But what do you have to back your assertions (that this is "not true" & "misinformation") that we should believe your claims over that of the developer (who has also posted a screenshot of the email he got from Apple)?
- uniqueid 5y ago
  what do you have to back your assertions After reading @fredros's comment here, I no longer feel confident that my statement that the "Qur'an is legal in the PRC" is much of an argument. 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.
  - yorwba 5y ago
    > 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 http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2000/content_60501.htm Article 17, item 6.
    - uniqueid 5y ago
      Thanks. That relates to the same point I conceded, but it's still interesting. 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.
fredros 5y ago
Selling the Bible online was already prohibited: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/world/asia/china-bans-bible-sales.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/world/asia/china-bans-bib...
- uniqueid 5y ago
  Thanks! I did not know that. In light of that, the third point in my comment isn't valid.
aaron695 5y ago
The mainstream media seems to be mostly ignoring the attacks on electronic Bibles and Christians this year. Which is so clichéd it's sad. A court in southeast China has handed down jail terms to four Christians arrested last year on charges of illegally selling electronic devices that play Bible verses. http://www.ucanews.com/amp/china-jails-christians-for-selling-bible-players/93577 http://www.ucanews.com/amp/china-jails-christians-for-sellin...

webmobdev 5y ago

I can understand your disbelief. But what do you have to back your assertions (that this is "not true" & "misinformation") that we should believe your claims over that of the developer (who has also posted a screenshot of the email he got from Apple)?

uniqueid 5y ago
what do you have to back your assertions After reading @fredros's comment here, I no longer feel confident that my statement that the "Qur'an is legal in the PRC" is much of an argument. 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.
- yorwba 5y ago
  > 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 http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2000/content_60501.htm Article 17, item 6.
  - uniqueid 5y ago
    Thanks. That relates to the same point I conceded, but it's still interesting. 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.

fredros 5y ago

Selling the Bible online was already prohibited: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/world/asia/china-bans-bible-sales.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/world/asia/china-bans-bib...

uniqueid 5y ago
Thanks! I did not know that. In light of that, the third point in my comment isn't valid.

aaron695 5y ago

The mainstream media seems to be mostly ignoring the attacks on electronic Bibles and Christians this year. Which is so clichéd it's sad. A court in southeast China has handed down jail terms to four Christians arrested last year on charges of illegally selling electronic devices that play Bible verses. http://www.ucanews.com/amp/china-jails-christians-for-selling-bible-players/93577 http://www.ucanews.com/amp/china-jails-christians-for-sellin...