Posted on 06/01/2018 4:35:39 AM PDT by heartwood
"The best prophet Sulayman approached his son and said to him, ‘I have received a message from God. I want you to circle the Earth and see if there are more people who are alive in spirit or more people who are dead in spirit.’ After a period the son returned and said, ‘Father I went to many places and everywhere I went I saw more people who were dead than those who were alive.’”
Hasan shared that message on a WeChat social-messaging group in 2015, when he was 23... He described himself to Darren Byler, an anthropologist from the University of Washington, as a Sufi wanderer, a pious man with a wife and small daughter, who prayed five times a day and disapproved of dancing and immodesty.
But in January 2015 the provincial government was demanding that everyone in Urumqi return to their native home to get a new identity card. “I am being forced to go back,” Hasan complained to Mr Byler. “The Yarkand police are calling me every day. They are making my parents call me and tell me the same thing.” Eventually, he and his family boarded a bus for the 20-hour journey home. It was hit by a truck. Hasan’s wife and daughter were killed. He was hospitalised. “It was the will of Allah,” he said.
Hasan hoped the authorities would allow him to return to Urumqi because of his injuries. No chance. Having lost wife, child and livelihood, Hasan lost his liberty, too. A fortnight after his accident, he was sent to a re-education camp for an indefinite period. There, for all his relatives know, he remains.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
There is surveillance by checkpoint, by DNA, by camera, by household and mosque spies, by mandated spy app and frequent download of phones.
There are trustworthiness scores by religious observance and personal associations.
The government knocks the spires off mosques and bans religious weddings.
Chen Quanguo, the provincial Communist Party leader whose previous job was the rule of Tibet, is running a surveillance laboratory for the rest of China, Christians and other dissidents next, every nail hammered down.
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Clearly, arms in the hands of citizens is bad for government.
...with the help of American technology from Silicon Valley.
So the story is about China trying to keep Muslim terrorism under control?
Freeper ebb tide posted a valuable article yesterday about Chinese control of the Catholic church in China.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3659589/posts?page=1
Ahead of China-Vatican dialogue, a five-year plan to Sinicize the Church under the Party. Asia News.
That has to be on of the most chilling articles I have read. Sounds cliche, but 1984 is here in Xinjiang apparently.
Where is the Western media proclaiming the mass error of the Han Chinese occupying the lands of the Uighurs? Are the Uighurs less deserving than the “Palestinians”?
Not at all. The story is about Chinese totalitarianism and intolerance of any people who don’t value China above all else.
As in Tibet, the Chinese government has moved Han Chinese into Xinjiang with the intention of extirpating the local culture and exploiting resources.
It is about Chinese ruthlessness and expansionism. Think South China Sea.
It is also about the technology and apparatus of a police state, some of which can show up here.
I wasn’t planning on sympathizing with Muslims today, but people should be let alone in their own lands.
China is showing that Islamic radicalism will not be tolerated. Intolerance prevents suicide bombers
Would-be Muslim oppressors meet Han Chinese oppressors:
A bad thing HOW...?
Think how close we were to the Dems seizing permanent power. The police state was ready to roll.
Christians next.
The irresistible force meets the immovable object.
China needs The Church, not the other way around... This is disturbing.
Very interesting on many levels. Thanks for posting.
Chinese Christians are next in line.
Ostensibly, yes. The absolute police state already in place is made possible by the energetic cooperation of silicon valley and its culture of death. These same technologies are in place in many US cities. Technocrats, especially those in Cali, are a growing danger to Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
It would be interesting to hear China’s side of this. Something tells me that these guys aren’t exactly a bunch of ‘perfect angels’ either, given their behavior in virtually every other country where they’re a minority.
To me, China’s just not in the mood to suck up to them, as our ‘leaders’ do in the West.
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