Indonesia: TikToker jailed for telling Jesus to cut his hair
Indonesia: TikToker jailed for telling Jesus to cut his hair
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Indonesia: TikToker jailed for telling Jesus to cut his hair
An Indonesian TikToker has been sentenced to almost three years in prison after reportedly 'talking' to a picture of Jesus on her phone and telling him to get a haircut.
Ratu Thalisa, a Muslim transgender woman with more than 442,000 TikTok followers, had been on a livestream, and was responding to a comment that told her to cut her hair to look more like a man.
Pretty sure this is the actual reason.
Being trans isn't against any rules of Islam, hell Pakistan has more out trans women than the UK does, and stricter laws protecting them. Indonesia isn't much different given the preexisting (relative to Islam) culture that supports the existence of trans people.
You accidentally a racism here.
Indonesia however does have stupidly strict blasphemy laws in relation to preventing religious discrimination in any direction.
Uh... Muslim here, it absolutely is.
Now I admit I’m a cis white man from ‘Murica, and my understanding of foreign affairs sometimes lacks, but it looks to me that transgender people get the shit-end of the stick in both Indonesian and Muslim cultures.