Posted on 03/28/2014 12:00:29 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The Western institutionalization of sharia norms.
A Swedish art professor has applauded Apple’s promise to diversify its emoticon options, including figures wearing religious headgear such as the hijab.
“It’s great, we need people with different skin colours among the emojis, and people with different clothes, from the hijab to the kippa,” illustration professor Joanna Rubin Dranger at Stockholm’s Konstfack academy told the TT news wire on Thursday.
The website DoSomething.org first let the battle cry sound, asking Apple to take a closer look at its 800 emojis.
“The only two resembling people of colour are a guy who looks vaguely Asian and another in a turban. There’s a white boy, girl, man, woman, elderly man, elderly woman, blonde boy, blonde girl and, we’re pretty sure, Princess Peach,” the petitioners wrote. “But when it comes to faces outside of yellow smileys, there’s a staggering lack of minority representation.
Apple’s head of communications, Katie Cotton, responded to the criticism by stating that the software company was working to “update the standard”. She did not say when such emojis would be introduced. The last time the offering was updated was in 2012, when same-sex couples were included.
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It appears that the term “Art Professor” is rapidly becoming an oxymoron.
Sooner Sweden rots the better
The hijab emoticon shares a similarity to this poor Afghan girl pictured on the cover of Time
Exterminate them and let God sort them out seems to be the only recourse.
Apple is Based in Khalifornia so this isn’t a surprise but how long till they make a sombrero wearing emoticon?
No matter how Muslim-friendly the emoticon is, how much do you bet it gets used mostly by people mocking Islam?
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It will effective replace the dunce hat.
Too drastic a solution.
Nuke Mecca and Medina and they all will quiet down and perhaps able to live with the rest of the world.
Well the emoticon doesn’t have a nose either.
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