Sunday, September 22, 2019

Beijing's Crackdown On Islam Is Spreading Across China

Chinese officials have cracked down on Arabic-style domes and minarets of the kind seen on this mosque in Lanzhou, a city in Gansu Province. Photo: The New York Times

Indian Express/NYTimes: A crackdown on Islam is spreading across China

In China s northwest, the government is stripping the most overt expressions of the Islamic faith from a picturesque valley where most residents are devout Muslims. Authorities have destroyed domes and minarets on mosques, including one in a small village near Linxia, a city known as Little Mecca.

Similar demolitions have been carried out in Inner Mongolia, Henan and Ningxia, the homeland of China s largest Muslim ethnic minority, the Hui. In the southern province of Yunnan, three mosques were closed. From Beijing to Ningxia, officials have banned the public use of Arabic script.

This campaign represents the newest front in the Chinese Communist Party s sweeping rollback of individual religious freedoms, after decades of relative openness that allowed more moderate forms of Islam to blossom. The harsh crackdown on Muslims that began with the Uighurs in Xinjiang is spreading to more regions and more groups.

Update #1: Mosque demolitions across China raise fears over escalating persecution of Uighur Muslims (The Independent)
Update #2: ‘Boiling us like frogs’: China’s clampdown on Muslims creeps into the heartland, finds new targets (The Washington Post)

WNU Editor: The Chinese may destroy the places where people go to worship, but the worshippers will only go underground.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wait what now?
But CNN told me to go to China, and spend money and invest there... I don't get it.. why do they tell me on one side that Donald Trump is a HitlerNaziSuperFascist and all his voters are deplorable assholes, BUT on the other hand they took all this ad money from China between 2014-2018? A LOT of money from China for CNN.

Hmm puzzles me.. so complicated to figure out.

-signed, the parrot

James said...

This type of program only works for the short time. A point is quickly crossed where implementation only makes the problem worse never better.

Roger Smith said...


Where's the UN? Where's obama? Where's the cadaverous Johnny K? J. Carter? Etc., etc., etc.?

They will say little to nothing. Internal disagreement. Xi knows this and doesn't care anyway.

RussInSoCal said...

1939 redux.


POGROMS,

R,

jimbrown said...

Is this the PRC we should worry about or the PRC that will be ripped apart by civil war?

Anonymous said...

David "Spengler" Goldman has been saying for years how hostile the Chinese leadership is to Islam and Muslims. But I don't expect them to do anything hostile to those outside China until their energy needs are very different.