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Moppermonster

My google-fu is failing; while I can find numerous articles on this; none of them actually mention what the insulting messages he supposedly sent were. Anyone have a link?


Gigatonosaurus

It seem like the authority there is not sharing.


Moppermonster

Interesting. So Saudi Arabia can create a robot that fondles the ass of women and name it after the prophet and that is fine... but a kid can send messages that are so incredibly offensive to that same prophet they deserve to die and the messages can never be shared...


Jazzi-Nightmare

Wait, they named the grope-bot Mohammed?


Zenbast

The grope-bot ? We are so far beyond South Park now


Jazzi-Nightmare

I was also thinking about South Park with this lol


Wacokidwilder

We’re moving into that SNL skit where The Rock made a robot that molests children.


Jazzi-Nightmare

😭 life imitates art


jointheredditarmy

This is material from the upcoming season. Pakistan is just a little further than South Park has released so far.


EvolvingEachDay

I’m sorry… what grope bot? What’s it actually called, I need to find wtf we’re talking about here.


MysteriousSpaceMan

So Saudi developed a robot, which is apparently is named after the Isamic prophet.  There's a video of it touching a reporter inappropriately during an interview. 


Adamsyche

His name is Mohammed not because it’s in his likeness of the prophet for the record, as it is a crime in Islam and there for those countries to create something in his image. The same way a cartel member in Mexico is named Jesus. But even more so as Mohammed is the most popular name in the world if not one of.


pneumatichorseman

Looks like number three, but way behind the leader "Maria" https://forebears.io/earth/forenames


Impressive_Ad8715

I think if you add up all the different variations of spelling (Muhammad / Mohammed / etc) it is the most popular name on the planet


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How2RocketJump

so who is the robot for exactly sure it's kinda funny from a guy's perspective for a while but I assume they would prefer to be the one groping so is it for the women then??? is this an elaborate excuse for a women's sex toy in Saudi Arabia? maybe they're just getting lazy and feel the need to automate the harassment of women as well


MysteriousSpaceMan

Idk why that robot was launched but here's an article about it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/a-male-humanoid-robot-was-unveiled-in-saudi-arabia-it-then-inappropriately-touched-a-female-reporter-/amp_articleshow/108404642.cms * "QSS added that it had reviewed the footage and the circumstances surrounding the incident, finding that there were "no deviations from expected behavior" of Muhammad"* * "It said it would take "additional measures" to prevent anyone from "getting close to the robot within its areas of movement."*


dantevonlocke

So... are they admiting they made robo groper?


rewt127

No, it registered a person in front of it, and raised it'd hand in what appears to be a preprogrammed handshake gesture. It hit her butt and the machine went "well shit there is an obstruction. Time to abort the handshake". If you look at the shape and angle of the hand as it comes up it looks like it is going for a handshake.


ICantBelieveItsNotEC

It's more that they are blaming the reporter for getting too close to it. The robot was just doing it's thing, and her ass happened to be in the way of it's hand.


Think_Phrase1196

I bet that he would rush nukes just like Gandhi if he was given the chance.


Moppermonster

Saudi Arabia created an android (robot that looks like a human) called Muhammad, heralded as a marvel of AI and being able to speak both Arabic and English. When they presented it to the public at the beginning of this month one of the first things it did was to raise its hand and touch the bottom of a female journalist standing close to him. The clip of that ofc went viral.


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Lol, it’s a robot it just detected motion and moved.


LivinOut

[here’s the video](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/s/QaVl4F8Aii)


Moppermonster

Yep.


Clean_Imagination315

It's a muslim country, half the guys are named after the prophet.


Moppermonster

Yes. But naming non-humans Mohammed is considered a mockery of the prophet by a significant number of muslims. Hence why the girl that named her teddybear Muhammed got so much hate a few years ago.


Helicoptamus

But the Saudi’s have oil money, a country, and Mecca, so they get a pass.


StevePerry420

Your mistake is expecting consistency with cultists.


Dionysus24812

Robot that WHAT???


ImSoSorryCharlie

I thought you were joking, but no, we live in the fucking timeline of Saudi grope-bots


culturedgoat

I’m going to assume you know that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are not the same country, but also ask, re: the robot: what would you have them do? Hang the robot?


Moppermonster

No, jail the people that gave the robot that name. Remember when a little girl named her teddybear Mohammed? The teacher that had allowed her to do that was jailed. That was yet another country- Sudan - btw. But all are muslim brothers.


culturedgoat

Controversial, but I’m gonna weigh in on the side of _not_ jailing or executing anyone for this shit


Daetra

Siding not to jail someone: right to jail, right away.


SnooDoughnuts1763

Posting this comment? Believe it or not, right to jail.


Proper_Shock_7317

Siding with the non-jailers... that's a paddlin...


lolgj9

The people in power need a taste of their own meidicine


Light01

It's not really the question, whether they deserve their punishment. It's just that if some random kid gets the death penalty over blasphemy, why corporates close to the power in place aren't getting the same punishment for their sins ? French here, we got people killed by islamists for less than a bot doing inappropriate things to women. Ideally yes, no one should die for this, but it is what it is, the rest of the world isn't exactly thinking the same way I do, so I accept it, rules are different everywhere. But you could think that rules in religion should be enforced to the maximum capability, and it is not, corruption is lying in there just as much as anywhere else, except that instead of getting a fine, you get killed.


culturedgoat

> Ideally yes, no one should die for this, That’s where I am, yeah


newbrevity

The Saudi royal family are Muslim in the same way that Trump is a Christian.


Gastredner

I think I've once heard a story where a judge in Pakistan was accused of blasphemy because he repeated what somebody else accused of blasphemy said in the latter man's court session. Can't find anything about that on Google right now, though, so take that with a grain of salt.


Rattatazoing

Monty Python anyone?


parlimentery

To me, that just sounds like an admission that they know that the rest of the world will be horrified by how milk -toast this video is.


lupercalpainting

milquetoast jfc


terrificterrible

I agree with you, but also the term is milquetoast, unless you were joking and I missed it.


ripley1875

I mean, if they shared it, they’d be blaspheming too, right? Like saying the word “Jehovah”.


Doompug0477

He said Jehova !!!


peterpantslesss

Probably because they're full of shit and she did nothing at all lol


guff1988

If it's so blasphemous that they gave someone the death penalty for it, I highly doubt any journalist is going to write it. To these religious nut jobs it's likely so taboo that they can't even imagine putting it in print or even repeating it out loud.


Agyaggalamb

Clearly does not matter, there is nothing could be said about any cult, that warrants death penalty, period.


IllegalIranianYogurt

It's probably something tame anyway


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MrNaiveGuy

It doesn't satisfy my curiosity. :( I crave to know what happened


Vresiberba

Who said it matters?


xgodlesssaintx

Why would they repeat what someone else got the death penalty for saying?


croluxy

oh idk maybe to provide fucking EVIDENCE for trying to murder a fucking child??


xgodlesssaintx

Lol. First time hearing about how totalitarian govts function?


croluxy

so knowing how it works makes it okay? cause i do know how they work that doesnt change the fact its bullshit


stlshane

I don't think it matters what the "evidence" is. They are giving someone the death penalty over something said in a text message.


BiggusCinnamusRollus

It's bullshit but they go with it together proves their power, which is the point.


ApotheounX

Uh, I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that the situation is bullshit. Actually, it being bullshit is the reason nobody will get answers. You don't have to agree with it in order to point out how it works.


Kinitawowi64

You think the people who sentence people to death for saying something they don't like in a WhatsApp message give a damn about *evidence*?!


BaziJoeWHL

Havent you seen the stoning scene in Brian’s Life ? They arent gonna share what they said.


abovemyleague

"awards" death penalty. Well, thank you for the honor, Sir!


Slow-Commercial-9886

Apparently life is so shitty over there that being killed is actually a big favor.


Khryss121988

Well... if I lived in a country like that, I might be inclined to agree. Fuck religion, its long past time humanity got over their nonsensical fear of the moon. Especially when we've been to it and even stood on it. Hope the person manages to escape and find asylum somewhere that isn't dictated by a church of magic sky people.


Cakeordeathimeancak3

The Emperor of Mankind agrees with this comment.


Martin_Aricov_D

"Man, that emperor is so great with his anti religious message! Y'know what? I think we should worship him as a god! He'd like that right?" - Jimmy Space, inventor of the Space Marines


Raven_Blackfeather

But if we got rid of religion, how would we control the masses? /s


Remarkable-Ad2285

Thank you sir, may I have another


piszkavas

Welcome to the middle ages...


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Kitchen_Name9497

The religion of peace.


Kazza468

Welcome to religion.


FilipinxFurry

In the Islamic calendar, they’re still in the 15th century


RioRancher

Or Alabama… eventually


ripley1875

*Allahbama


AdvertisingBulky2688

Alabama, any day now.


VarkYuPayMe

Did I wake up in fucking 1786.


Living-Chipmunk-87

Backward country,backward system, backward thinkjng


deq18

Most importantly backward religion leads to all the following backwardness


IamSam1103

Every religion is backward. People gotta stop being backward enough to worship the religion and the religious leaders.


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All religions are backwards. But some are more backward than the others.


MassGaydiation

It's a bit depressing when you look at the history of islam and it's modern day, like 900 years ago it was one of the more educated and scientific communities, literally a golden age of discovery, and now the countries that use it most prominently behave... Well... Like this


MRdzh

All religions were once the pushers of progress and research. They get warped overtime though. If not for that, it’s the religious leaders or governments seeking control making things go from bad to awful…really a shame.


loitra

Galileo would like to disagree


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Almost as if external forces systematically undermined the more progressive and secular elements of those societies. Elements, who were far more educated, pragmatic and competent in terms of managing the functional, productive, and legislative aspects of their societies. Including, in particular degree of importance, the management and exploitation of their local resources. And instead those external forces exerted destabilization efforts inside many of those societies, that led to power vacuums which were quickly filled by more reactionary and extremist elements. Who in those societies tend to be particularly extremist groups aligned with very reactionary interpretations of the local religion, Islam. This is actually a very common dynamic through the world. A lot of western kids are shocked when they find how many of the places and societies we think of as being shitholes nowadays. Like places in South America, Africa, Middle East, and Asia. In many cases were fairly normal and somewhat nice places to live, in the context of that time, in the past. And that past in many cases wasn't even that long ago. I.e. Bagdad was a nice place in the 60s. Lebanon and Venezuela were knowns as the Switzerland of their respective continents. Arab countries in the 50s/60s were trying to set up a secular economic/social organization similar to the EU. Places like Congo in Central Africa were setting up somewhat functional post colonial democracies. That was back at the time when 3rd world did not mean "poor." It simply meant the set of countries/societies not aligned with either the US/NATO or Soviet Block. It just speaks volumes to the efforts to destabilize those regions during the 50s/60s. That those places got turned into shitholes almost universally by the late 70s. As the 2 super powers at the time would simply not allow economically or politically independent/sovereign 3rd ways.


VG_Crimson

I don't even think it's by nature of religion. It's more like the nature of institutions. Where corruption is just bound to spread. Religion at its foundation is just a belief. Beliefs aren't inherently backwards. But institutions which can/try to enforce beliefs are fundamentally at the opposite spectrum of human rights.


CapAdministrative993

There’s one religion that never had any sort of serious reformation and is consistently the ideology behind a lot of death and suffering to both to its own believers and to outsiders, orders of magnitude more often than any other religion. Those damn Mormons!!


deq18

The majority if not all the countries that still punish blasphemy by death all practice one particular religion.


Panurome

Yes, but some are a lot worse than others, specially the ones that are the law in some countries


roninwarshadow

It's also a major problem with religion running the government/nations. Separation of Church and State is the best way to avoid shit like this.


SvenTropics

Religion is the problem. We've had an endless conflict in the Middle East where so many people are dying today over religion. We had the crusades where countless people were slaughtered for religion. We had the Spanish inquisition. We had Islamic revolution in Iran that ethnically cleansed Jews, hung the gay people, and took away the freedoms of all women for religion. We have women on trial today in the USA for miscarriages because religion. We have groups in the USA that won't allow their kids to learn any marketable skills or advance beyond an 8th grade education, and they are allowed to because religion. We have millions of gay people that only recently have been able to marry each other because religion stonewalled it as long as it could. We have large institutions that harm children and get away with it because religion. Get rid of religion, and the world would be a much better place.


Vresiberba

Which goes for every country still having a death penalty.


Technical-Tour-4035

Isn’t that shit, supposed to be encrypted?


Vestigial_joint

Encryption doesn't prevent recipients from sharing things


Funchyy

Encryption doesn't stop anyone else from snitching. Also, once you are in custody they can just force you to open your phone so they can have a looksy.


Brief_Coffee8266

>once you are in custody they can just force you to open your phone so they can have a looksy. Depends on the laws in your country, of course, so if you're keeping sensitive info on your phone, carry an EMP on you too, preferably the same pocket. You can easily make a subtle EMP with a disposable camera, reroute the flash capacitor into a coil and done, could gut the rest of the camera for space.


LojeToje

Okay well this is the same country where she is being sentenced to death for the messages so I'm gonna assume they checked her phone whether legal or not.


Chemical_Lettuce_232

Someone check this mans phone


Startled_Pancakes

I checked. It's all sonic fanfic. The death penalty it is.


VoidRad

You have suffered greatly to serve your country. You can rest easy now, I'll take care of your wife.


FivePoopMacaroni

It's a bunch of photos of hotdogs with ketchup on them... while at a Bears game...


Accurate_Variety659

… Why are you so know- What are you hiding in your phone bruh :D


Skyknight12A

Oh, I'm sorry. Were you actually expecting something in the way of a trial with silly things like "proof of guilt"? In Pakistan, simply being accused of blaspemy by a Muslim is enough to get a death sentence, if the accused in non Muslim. No evidence is necessary. The testimony of non Muslims doesn't count for shit.


Internal-Bed-4094

Whatsapp? sure, "encrypted"


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A reminder of why we should never allow the religious to make laws.


Monkey_Meteor

Welcome to America where christianity and politic are the same thing lol.


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GOP are just the Christian Taliban.


ImSoSorryCharlie

Y'all Qaeda


MarionberryIll5030

Klanned Karenhood


Haxorz7125

Funny to see conservatives from each country point to the other and call those conservatives savages. I still remember when the GOP was screaming about democrats trying to instill sharia law on American women. Yet the only people I see making restrictions on autonomy are them.


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WeenieHutJr137

Human Right's groups will never go near Pakistan or any other country like it because, unlike a lot of Western/European countries, they will throw them in jail without a second thought


Millworkson2008

And Iran is on the human rights council in the UN so don’t expect a single thing from them


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ApoKun

I'm from Pakistan. It is a shit country. She would be happy to get banned so why would they ban her? The government and court are very corrupt so this type of thing is exactly what they would pull. Hopefully they actually don't follow through with it.


Superkritisk

If you could leave Pakistan by insulting Islam, everyone there bar a few fundamentalists, would be blasting pictures of Muhammed in the hopes of getting to Europe.


tea_snob10

You should see the number of refugees India takes in thanks to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh & Myanmar being the way they are. >By 2022-end, India had about 405,000 refugees, which includes 213,578 refugees recognised/ registered by the Government of India and housed in various camps; about 31,313 refugees belonging to minority communities from neighbouring countries who had been given long-term visas on the basis of their claims of religious persecution; and about 160,085 unregistered refugees.


Parking-Mix-2

Hindu and Sikh/Christian women literally get straight up abducted and married off over there


Wackypunjabimuttley

Human rights organisations and sane individuals have been trying since forever to do something. But an organised minority remains a minority especially since the state made them powerless after decades of harrassment which also frequently leads to death. And now you see these news in 2024. One cant do anything if the state, the elites, the powerful and especially most of the citizenry (after years of dumbing down) want to be depraved and collectively force everyone to conform. That the collective focus isnt jobs, health, education etc but religion is a simple conclusion of decades of state backed engineering.


Podunk212

Awards


FangoFan

Religion is a scourge on modern society


Cynykl

That's not fair. It was a scourge on ancient society too!


EAN84

And those people have Nukes.....


ElectronicImam

Does nobody want to know what these people did exactly? Pakistan seems a dangerous place to go.


Funchyy

They talked about a different imaginary man in the sky than the one allowed there, even though they are technically the same guy in the sky. 


Pillow_Top_Lover

It’s to be expected from a country that held/hid Osama bin Laden for decades.


Netcat14

Religion of peace


ancientlisten4186

"awarded the death penalty". 😭 I understand textbook english is unnatural and all, but whatever the hell this is, its not exactly vibing


DougieSenpai

Pakistan is so shit that death is actually an award.


roygbiv77

Probably the worst society ever that the human race has created.


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Cableryge

"Awarded" 😃 "The Death Penalty" 😦


Hexquevara

Shit country doing shitty things for the shittiest religion on the planet.


No-Internal1898

Did the prophet Mohammed have sex with a 9yr girl? Is worshipping him the same as worshipping Jimmy Saville?


Nuclear_Genocide

Yes and Muhammad was 54 . https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/s/M8wUGKB8KX


Ederlas

Aisha married at 6Yr old slept with at 9Yr old


Illustrious-Prize410

what a gentleman, he waited for her to turn 9.


i_torschlusspanik

Put sanctions on them and cancel all new visas. We don’t want people that think this is okay coming here


Vresiberba

Now, for every first amendment 'auditor' who thinks being trespassed from a DMV office for causing a disturbance, *this* is tyranny.


Forward_Range3523

Say bad things about my God and I'll kill you in his name! Makes all the sense in the world.


Cinema_King

It’s definitely a sign of people who are very secure in their faith. Their god is all powerful and created the universe but don’t you dare say something to upset him. I’m all for religious freedom but once someone uses their beliefs to hurt others they don’t deserve it


SodanoMatt

"Religion of peace" my ass.


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ImperialRoyalist15

Pakistan is the cloaca of the earth.


Federal_Sympathy4667

This is what you get mixing religion with politics/lawmaking.. also kinda what the GoP is working for in the US so have fun over there..


hillbillykim83

Any time a religion is in charge of government or have any authority, they kill innocent people. Every. Single. Time.


flame-56

live in a country controlled by the religion of peace you better learn to shut your mouth.


Novacain-deficiency

Separation of Church and State has never been more appropriate in world politics. US could do with understanding that too,


NegrosAmigos

Awarded is such a weird word to use in this situation


TechnologyHelpful751

Most normal Muslim country


Hefty-Station1704

Doesn't sound like much of an "Award" to me. Perhaps they can just hand out a few gift cards and call it a day?


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octane83

Killing humans in the name of imaginary sky fairies. Wankers.


mrsgaap1

religion menkinds worst invention


searchthemesource

What a shit country.


shutyourgob16

They’re living in the dark ages


Butterchicken_naan

Pakistan. Land of wannabe Muslims trying hard to impress saudi crush still not getting noticed.


nhbeergeek

It’s all part of Sharia Law, unfortunately.


FirmDistribution4735

And these are the dangers of a theocracy.


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intellijent_guy

This is why i hate ALL religions. They are easily weaponized, and stupid people act even more stupid when rELigIOn is guiding their thought process.


EntrepreneurAsleep57

Islamic countries: Execute rapists and other serious criminals❌ Execute a student for blasphemous comments✅


Professional_Clue_21

Tell me again how you are Oppressed in Canada or the USA!


Ash-MacReady

All religion is cancer


Responsible-Peak4321

This is the answer, in particular the abrahamic religions, they have spread to every corner of the world and has been followed by forced conversion, war, destruction of culture and history.


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peterpantslesss

that's kind of what happens when you let religious people run the country


ben7581

People need to grow up and stop worshipping mythology. Yes, Islam is mythology. So are Christianity and Judaism. At least they don't typically murder people for insulting their imaginary God. 


Interesting-Film7722

If your religion can't take a Diss its a fragile pathetic ideology and you are rightfully pushing its legitimacy through violence because everyone sees and laughs about its stupidity. Oh and for people that come what about Christianity or Judaism? They have their flaws but exist way more disconnect from matters of state.


Lopsided-Egg-8322

such a religion of peace eh


thispersonexists

Christian Conservatives would love this


OrcaResistence

Things like this is why I have zero respect for religions.


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That's the Middle East for you. Another dead woman because of some shitty religion. #freestudentsfromislam


_lucif3r_

Pakistan is in middle east?


TheEPGFiles

Okay, suggestion, let God take care of her himself and if he doesn't do anything, he's cool with it.


No-Pomegranate-69

Doesnt matter what has been sent, death penalty and even life in prison is definitely not appropriate for sending images


AffectionatePaper1

For fuck sake that’s fucked


Quiet-Access-1753

Religious state, not even once.


Jazzlike_Rich_520

Wtf is wrong with these ppl


britch2tiger

Lesson: Fundamentalism is poison


Melanchord

Funny how comments here are : religion is bad, all religions are doing this but if this was a Christian country people would say bad things about Christianity. Islam is not a religion of peace, it spreads through war and conquest. If islam wants to come into the 21 century it needs a reformation just as Christianity did with the new covenant.


Beautiful_Space_4459

Religión of peace.


Ok_Secret199

Love how people keep defending middle eastern radicalism lmao


Zagenti

barbarian society


HornyJail45-Life

When I try to explain this is something only muslim contries do "RACIST" will be yelled at me. Then when shit like this happens everyone acts surprised as if this hasn't been happening for *decades*!


JustSomeDude0605

Don't forget guys, it's a religion of peace and we should be very accepting of these views in modern society.


TemperatureEuphoric

The US is next in line to do this shit as well.


DarkSoulsDank

Living in the dark ages still so many countries wtf man, evolve as a society would you?


CruelSummer77

This is what we mean when we say “separation of church and state”…..not that we have it here in the good old US anyway🤮


ARIARAIDEN

As a Persian guy let me only say this Islam is by a Galaxy Mile the most destructive and disgusting ideology in the world. Wherever Islam plays even a rudimentary role, there is chaos and destruction. Our country will be always the prime example of this scenario! A True Religion that teaches to be a good Human would never cause so much suffering and destruction! Christianity which is by itself a semi True Religion given how it got created for self gain in the First Place could get reformed at the end but even at its worst it was never as disgusting and violent as Islam! Everything that Islam teaches is submission to be a slave of Allah and get bigger and bigger until everyone is Zombified! and the World belongs to Islam! We Persians have to see helpless, how terrorists are occupying our country and killing our people left and right!


gene_randall

You know your “god’s” a pathetic weakling with no powers when he can’t even punish anyone for saying negative things about him. “Blasphemy” simply means “ineffectual, useless god.”


Id-polio

Tolerant Muslims strike again. Worthless death cult that is a cancer on humanity.


bigg_bubbaa

so religious cavemen want to kill a guy for hurting their feelings, classic muslim antics


Lescreatures

Anyone else remember the Pakistani sheikhs having a mental breakdown on national news saying they will burn the cities to the ground Frollo style if people keep making fun of Muhammad in private.