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Google refuses to remove Sharia woman-tracking app

Mar 4, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

But what do you think would happen if I tried to put a Jihad Watch app in the Google Play Store? Right. The social media giants are becoming Sharia-compliant with alacrity. This is akin to Twitter’s sending out of Sharia blasphemy warnings from Pakistan, and Facebook’s assuring the government of Pakistan that it would remove material critical of Islam.

“Google refuses to remove controversial ‘woman tracking’ app in Saudi Arabia, Apple has…,” Techspot, March 3, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Absher is an app available via Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. The app has many features such as paying parking fines, registering a birth, or renewing a driving license. But one feature has led to an outcry from human rights campaigners – the ability for men to track and either permit or deny travelling plans made by women.

On February 21, 14 representatives from Congress wrote to both Google and Apple demanding removal of the app, alleging that “women fleeing persecution in Saudi Arabia had to defeat this application to leave the country and seek asylum.” The letter gave a deadline of February 28 to respond.

According to Business Insider, Google has now confirmed to Rep. Jackie Speier that they will not be removing the app from their Play Store, while Apple have yet to answer beyond stating that they are ‘investigating’. Google said that the app “does not violate any agreements and can therefore remain on the Google Play store.”

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Filed Under: Featured, Internet jihad, Islamic supremacism, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Absher, Google


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  1. D. Morris says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 3:09 pm

    Any company that does business in the US should not be allowed to build or use these types of apps.

    • smoris says

      Mar 5, 2019 at 10:29 am

      How about any business that is heavily subsidized by US taxpayers not be allowed to have this app? Google receives massive subsidies from the US federal government. This is a good reason to stop subsidizing these companies. Unless our government controls a company it should not put tax dollars into it. Period.
      Now – dare I post this? What the heck. I will.

  2. Jean Terry says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 3:14 pm

    How outrageous. We are trapped by Google and their control.

    • CRUSADER says

      Mar 4, 2019 at 6:30 pm

      ‘Big Tech’ isn’t one big monopoly – it’s 5 companies …

      theconversation.com/big-tech-isnt-one-big-monopoly-its-5-companies-all-in-different…

      When thinking about regulating them, it’s useful to know Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft have some similarities…..

    • Westman says

      Mar 5, 2019 at 11:02 am

      Absher – Abs(control of) Her.

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 3:17 pm

    Google’s original motto was “DON’T BE EVIL”. How soon they have forgotten. Google’s cooperation with MISOGYNY and TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIPS is EVIL.

    If you don’t think cooperating with Islam is ‘EVIL’, please read following what Islam’s primary SOURCE TEXTS say about hunting apostates.

    The Koran makes all Muslims BOUNTY HUNTERS to be rewarded with eternal erections and sex with slaves in the Islamic paradise.

    Mohammed commands the killing of apostates, and promises eternal rewards for doing so:
    When I relate to you the words of Mohammed, by Allah, I would rather die than bear false witness to his teachings. However, if I should say something unrelated to the prophet, then it might very well be a lie so that I might deceive my enemy. Without question, I heard Mohammed say, “In the final days before Redemption there will emerge groups of foolish youths who will say all the right things but their faith will go no further than their mouths and will flee from their religion like an arrow. So, kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 4, 2019 at 3:33 pm

      +1

  4. Ashley says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 3:18 pm

    Chilling.

  5. Olli Hekkala says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 3:22 pm

    No to freedom of speech(Free Alex Jones!) but yes to more Big(and small) Tech tracking of private citizens.

    That is what all people want. Really.

  6. gravenimage says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    Google refuses to remove Sharia woman-tracking app
    …………………….

    This is terrifying, considering how much of this leads to wife beating and even “Honor Killing”.

    But then, no support for the Counter Jihad from Google:

    “Google deep-sixes Jihad Watch”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/google-deep-sixes-jihad-watch

    • CRUSADER says

      Mar 4, 2019 at 6:32 pm

      7 Deadly Sins of Social Media..

      Lust – Tinder
      Gluttony – Yelp
      Greed – LinkedIn
      Sloth – Netflix
      Pride – Instagram
      Envy – Facebook
      Wrath – Twitter

      • LytchZam says

        Mar 4, 2019 at 11:15 pm

        May I quote you to friends? That’s pretty good… or very bad.

      • Jean (old) says

        Mar 5, 2019 at 4:16 am

        CRUSADER

        Nailed it beautifully.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 5, 2019 at 9:49 pm

        That *is* funny.

        But not everyone misuses social media. Robert Spencer is on both Facebook and Twitter.

  7. WPM says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 4:00 pm

    Its how Moslem men keep track of there slaves, wives ,women of the right hand ect. Modern day ball and chains ,limiting the amount time women can travel ,, limiting the distance they can be from their husbands and “keepers”. Limiting how many times they can journey, next on line a collar the women can wear on their necks that will give then a electric zap applied by a phone app you can get in the google play store if they stray out of stated boundaries set by their husbands or fathers .

  8. No Muzzies Here says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    How quickly and eagerly they rush to become Sharia-compliant. One might think that Google is full of glee over the forthcoming Islamization of Western countries.

    • Leon Degney says

      Mar 4, 2019 at 9:12 pm

      As sad as your comment sounds I do see some truth rattling around there. What their end game is is difficult to fathom. When they have assisted in the Western and European countries being overrun by backward technophobes how do these platforms hope to continue? The mind boggles.

  9. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    Through patent cross-licensing between Google and Amazon, this bint-tracking app can be combined with a remotely operated neck-worn disincentivizer similar to

    https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16958918/amazon-patents-trackable-wristband-warehouse-employees

    to make Quran 4:34 a worldwide standard. Quran-tech akbar!

  10. Indiana Tom says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 5:41 pm

    But one feature – the ability for men to track and either permit or deny travelling plans made by women. I think this would be a great app for the husbands of the pink pussy hats. Bill would love this for Hillary. Need to sell this in USA ASAP! The gift that keeps on giving. Next a dog collar and leash for the little woman!

  11. CRUSADER says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 6:27 pm

    Duck Duck Go

    instead of the Big G

    • James Lincoln says

      Mar 4, 2019 at 7:35 pm

      Yes, that is now my default search engine.

      • Terry Gain says

        Mar 4, 2019 at 10:00 pm

        Me too. The difference in search results is striking. Google hides negative news and opinion about Islam.

    • Leon Degney says

      Mar 4, 2019 at 9:15 pm

      And MeWe in place of the abysmal Facebook.

  12. Mel says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    This makes me want to vomit. The evil perpetrated by this ideology and the western idiots that go along with it is sickening. I can’t wrap my head around the blatant oppression of women that goes unopposed by these big tech companies. Yet they scream if someone says something mean on the internet. Utterly disgusting!

    • Leon Degney says

      Mar 4, 2019 at 9:16 pm

      The something said doesn’t have to be “mean” to have one banned Mel.

  13. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    It’s just business.

    • Leon Degney says

      Mar 4, 2019 at 9:17 pm

      Is that similar to “I was just following orders”?

      • Anjuli Pandavar says

        Mar 7, 2019 at 8:34 am

        Almost, I’d say. In some instances, not following orders can get you killed. No one should arrogate to themselves the right to challenge the decisions people make under such conditions. But a business doesn’t *have* to make that sale, especially if they can show themselves quite willing to forego a lucrative product line in favour of a hypothetical future advantage. Google cannot dump its female-tagging software, but Amazon can pull “Muhammad’s Qur’an”. In the first case money speaks, in the second money shouts.

  14. tninfidel says

    Mar 4, 2019 at 9:57 pm

    The Religion of Peace has an app on Play Store. Too bad Jihad Watch doesn’t. Just installed it on my phone. Wonder how long until Google removes it?

  15. David Stephenson says

    Mar 5, 2019 at 11:33 am

    If it was 1935. Goolag would be vying for the contract to tag people as Jewish and help facilitate the pogrom.

    Someone is always willing to build the crematoriums and do the dirty work for a buck.

  16. Paul says

    Mar 5, 2019 at 12:13 pm

    I downloaded what I thought was Absher and its some Saudi government app. I got bored. I gave up. I’m playing games with petrol and matches now…

    Paul

  17. Bro. Nick Nicholas says

    Mar 25, 2019 at 11:34 pm

    It is most certainly “the truth” that ‘Most People Don’t Even Realize What’s Coming’ – and fewer still even care ! ! !
    youtube.com/watch?v=xNyawizuKm0&list=PL1fMzC_oxcaX8WRP7jjgPL2rnw4ftNaEg&index=2&t=10s
    .
    – As just ONE of the ‘End-Time’ WARNINGS is written in Luke 21:34-36 [AV]:
    AND take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting,
    AND drunkenness,
    AND cares of this life,
    AND so THAT DAY come upon you unawares.
    For as a snare shall IT come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
    WATCH YE THEREFORE,
    AND PRAY ALWAYS, THAT YE MAY BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY to escape all these things that shall come to pass,
    AND TO STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN.
    .
    * NOTE – CAPITALization of “the words of the Lord” are mine for EMPHASIS – Bro. Nick
    .

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