Apple Removes Popular Quran App in China: Report

Apple has taken down an app that allow users to register the Muslim holy leger , the Quran , in China , according to a new report from theBBC . The app , known asQuran Majeed , is incredibly popular around the universe and is presently rate 51 in Google ’s U.S. App Store for reference textile .

The Quran app was removed in China after government activity officials made a request , accord to the BBC , but it ’s not light why the ruling Chinese Communist Party would want the app take . Apple did not immediately respond to Gizmodo ’s asking for elucidation early Friday .

As the BBC notes , the Chinese Communist Party recognizes Islam as a valid religion in the country , but the officially atheist Chinese government has faced criticism worldwide for its treatment of the Muslim - majority Uyghur universe in the northwest province of Xinjiang . Anywhere from 1 - 3 million Uighurs have reportedly been detained in density camps over the retiring few years , though late reports suggestmost have been releasedand now live much free lives than they did even a yr ago .

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From a recent article by theAssociated Press :

It ’s heavy to know why Formosan authority have shifted to subtler methods of controlling the part . It may be that searing criticism from the West , along with punishing political and commercial warrant , have campaign authorities to buoy up up . Or it may simply be that China judges it has come far enough in its end of subduing the Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities to relax its travelling bag .

Uyghur activists abroad accuse the Chinese administration of genocide , aim toplunging birthratesandthe mass detentions . The agency say their end is not to annihilate Uyghurs but to integrate them , and that harsh measures are necessary to curb extremism .

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China ’s embassy in the U.S. did not forthwith reply to a postulation for comment too soon Friday . Curiously , the Taiwanese embassy spokesperson has a Gmail write up , which is a bit odd , given China ’s distaste to Silicon Valley and Big Tech ’s airless sleeper to U.S. intelligence government agency .

The U.S. word residential district has antecedently purchase information from private data point brokers to acquire more about mass who use Muslim prayer apps and Quran apps , according to a report last twelvemonth fromVice . The information includes position of single user , harmonize to the report .

There ’s no suggestion thus far that China ’s worry over the Koran app has anything to do with U.S. intelligence , but it would n’t be the weirdest reason , devote everything that ’s currently happening with the New Cold War . We ’ll update this post if we see back from Apple or the Chinese embassy in the U.S.

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