cavanami Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 China's Fertile Ground for Islamic State http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-fertile-ground-islamic-state-230002962.html Three hundred Chinese citizens, members of the country's Uighur ethnic group, have recently traveled to the Middle East to join Islamic State. Those Uighurs are part of a broader Muslim migration, spurred by a government crackdown, away from China's western province of Xinjiang, where Muslims have lived for over 1000 years . Although they were designed to dampen Islamic separatism, Chinese policies in the region are creating fertile ground for Islamic extremism. In 1949, 82 percent of the people living in Xinjiang were Uighurs. In the decades since, a government-sponsored influx of Han Chinese has changed the province's ethnic makeup. By 2010, Xinjiang’s 10 million Uighurs accounted for just 46.3 percent of the population, according to that year’s census. (reduce the percentage of Muslims!) Uighurs claim that the government favors Han when handing out licenses to start businesses or use the region's natural resource such as coal, oil and gas, and iron ore. Uighur resentments have turned violent. During the 1990s, and again in the late 2000s, ethnic riots and protests were frequent. Street violence in July 2009 was the deadliest in China since the Cultural Revolution, resulting in the deaths of more than 180 people, mostly Han. In response, the Chinese government began a crackdown that has yet to relent. Over the past year, especially, the Chinese government has focused on Uighurs' practice of Islam as a potentially subversive threat. In July, during Ramadan, the state not only prohibited the religiously prescribed fast, but coerced many Muslims to eat. For example, some university students were forced to eat lunch with their professors. Beards and mustaches have been banned. Women are barred from wearing veils and head coverings in public in much of Xinjiang -- including, as of Feb. 1, in the provincial capital, Urumqi... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 So over this muslim Islamic State bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 A friend's daughter taught in Xinjiang for several years. She said don't believe a word the Chinese government says, it treats the Uighurs like crap. That's the reason for the violence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted February 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 > ...don't believe a word the Chinese government... I'm shocked! what a amazing statement... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneSoup Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 There are many ways to skin a cat: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-bans-halal-and-kosher-slaughter-as-minister-says-animal-rights-come-before-religion-9135580.html I suppose there may still be Muslim vegan/vegitarians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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