{"id":31628,"date":"2021-02-10T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31628"},"modified":"2021-02-10T16:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T21:24:05","slug":"apple-removes-apps-for-pakistani-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/10\/apple-removes-apps-for-pakistani-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Removes Apps for Pakistani Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megha Rajagopalan<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Over the last two years, the government of Pakistan has forced Google and Apple to take down apps in the country created by developers based in other nations who are part of a repressed religious minority.<\/p>

The move is part of a crackdown<\/a> led by the country’s telecommunications regulator targeting the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Adherents, called Ahmadis, number about 4 million in Pakistan. Though Ahmadis identify as Muslim, Pakistan’s government views them as heretics, and a 1984 ordinance forbids them from “posing” as Muslims, adopting Islamic religious practices, and referring to their houses of worship as mosques. Pakistan is the only country to declare that Ahmadis are not Muslim.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

At issue are seven religious apps created by the Ahmadi community in the United States, published under the name “Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n