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posted by martyb on Sunday April 30 2017, @10:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the Was-he-having-too-much-fun? dept.

Russian prosecutors requested a 3½ year prison sentence Friday for a blogger charged with inciting religious hatred for playing "Pokemon Go" in a church.

Prosecutors made the request as the trial of Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, wrapped up in the city of Yekaterinburg. A judge said a verdict in the case would be issued May 11.

Sokolovsky posted a video on his blog showing him playing the smartphone game in a church built on the supposed spot where the last Russian tsar and his family were killed. He has been in detention since October.

He is charged with inciting religious hatred. It is the same offense that sent two women from the Pussy Riot punk collective to prison for two years in 2012.

Source: ABC News

Video: YouTube


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:09AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:09AM (#502162)

    I understand the hesitation to jump aboard the "all Islam is bad - round 'em up, ship 'em out!" train, but the idea that Islam could be reformed if given enough time does nothing in the here and now where the problem is.

    If some Muslims were to disavow the violence mandated by Islam according to its own "source code" books, and instead start to adapt to a culture of personal responsibility, no initiation of force, and no fraud, then I'd be happy to count them as friends and put my life on the line to defend them against other Muslims who would see them killed because my new friends had left Islam. Which is exactly what my friends would have done.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:16AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:16AM (#502180)

    > "source code" books,

    Repeat after me: People are not computers.

    There is more theological diversity within islam than there is in christianity or hinduism.
    The only reason you think islam is some monolithic religion is because you are profoundly ignorant of islam.
    Its clear you have exactly zero personal knowledge of actual muslims.
    Inform yourself.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @09:08AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @09:08AM (#502194)

      > "source code" books,
      Repeat after me: People are not computers.

      People who read and obey the text in the Koran, Hadith, and Sura are following Islam and are thus Muslim. Those who do not are not. This is the primary reason why there are so many Muslims murdering other "Muslims".

      you are profoundly ignorant of islam

      Once again, I refer you to the excellent English resource on Islam, an indepth analysis using Islam's own books, that is found at prophetofdoom.net

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @10:23AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @10:23AM (#502208)

        People who read and obey the text in the Koran, Hadith, and Sura are following Islam and are thus Muslim. Those who do not are not.

        By that criteria there is no such thing as a muslim as nobody can possibly do all that because not only is there is so much aracana in there, plenty of it is contradictory.
        People of all faiths pick and choose not only what scripture to follow, but what the scripture even means.

        Once again, I refer you to the excellent English resource on Islam, an indepth analysis using Islam's own books, that is found at prophetofdoom.net

        People are not computers, but you are an ignorant robot mentally enslaved to a conspiratorial protocols of the elders of islam website.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @10:42AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @10:42AM (#502213)

          By that criteria there is no such thing as a muslim

          I'm happy to see that we have the official Arbiter Of All Things Islam here with us today.

          People of all faiths pick and choose not only what scripture to follow, but what the scripture even means.

          Silly me - I thought that words actually [quran.com] had [quran.com] specific [ucg.org] meanings [quran.com].

          you are an ignorant robot

          Sounds like your projection is flaring up again. You could try refuting the message [prophetofdoom.net], instead of flailing weakly at the messenger.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:26AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:26AM (#502741)

          By that criteria there is no such thing as a muslim as nobody can possibly do all that because not only is there is so much aracana in there, plenty of it is contradictory.
          People of all faiths pick and choose not only what scripture to follow, but what the scripture even means.

          Last scripture is the one with precedence.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:06AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:06AM (#502750)

            Last scripture is the one with precedence.

            Correct insofar as Islam's books are concerned, and the term for that is abrogation [quran.com].

  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday May 01 2017, @01:44PM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Monday May 01 2017, @01:44PM (#502259) Journal
    In fact, the sufis of Syria were one (among many) good example of exactly what you want, until they were beheaded by IS recently.

    Pay close attention, the jihadis target traditional muslims as their very first priority in every case. Before infidels and sorcerers and everyone else - the very first thing when these guys take a village is they go find the Imam and they chop his head off. There's a reason for this.
    --
    If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:29AM (#502744)

      "Our style of Islam or your head chop-chop" ..?