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China's war on terror becomes all-out attack on Islam in Xinjiang
WaPo ^ | September 19 at 7:50 PM | Simon Denyer

Posted on 09/20/2014 5:51:28 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

SHACHE COUNTY, China – The month of Ramadan should have been a time of fasting, charity and prayer in China’s Muslim west. But here, in many of the towns and villages of southern Xinjiang, it was a time of fear, repression, and violence.

China’s campaign against separatism and terrorism in its mainly Muslim west has now become an all-out war on conservative Islam, residents here say.

Throughout Ramadan,police intensified a campaign of house-to-house searches, looking for books or clothing that betray “conservative” religious belief among the region’s ethnic Uighurs: women wearing veils were widely detained, and many young men arrested on the slightest pretext, residents say. Students and civil servants were forced to eat instead of fasting, and work or attend classes instead of attending Friday prayers.

The religious repression has bred resentment, and, at times, deadly protests. Reports have emerged of police firing on angry crowds in recent weeks in the towns of Elishku, and Alaqagha; since then, Chinese authorities have imposed a complete blackout on reporting from both locations, even more intense than that already in place across most of Xinjiang.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: china
If this account is accurate, the Chinese government has resorted to live fire at non-violent Uighur demonstrations. That's a fairly dramatic escalation - one that may radicalize Uighurs who were not otherwise sympathetic to the separatists. And if Uighurs are able to get video out to the world, a jihad may commence against Chinese nationals abroad.
1 posted on 09/20/2014 5:51:28 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: Zhang Fei

They have also destroyed 500 Christian churches in that area - taken down the crosses on the buildings, attacked and brutalized the crowds of Christians who were protesting. Evidently Christianity is growing too quickly, and the latest leader is a zero-tolerance guy. A pastor on Raymond Arroyo said, last night, that it is as bad as the Cultural Revolution in the early days.


2 posted on 09/20/2014 5:54:34 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Zhang Fei

It’s ok with me


3 posted on 09/20/2014 5:59:08 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Zhang Fei

China can’t well deport them and all the Moslems are in sympathy with the active Jihaists. Remember, they are Mohammedans thus they are all Jihadists. Some are active now. All will eventually be active so long as there are excess resources in the community. Excess resources are any wealth above that which is necessary for basic subsistence. China is doing what it has to do within its own system. America should do something analagous but we must not just shoot them. American Mohammedanss, however, should all be deported to somewhere. They are enemy aliens, all of them. There are no benign Moslems.


4 posted on 09/20/2014 6:09:31 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Zhang Fei

All islamists are radicals.


5 posted on 09/20/2014 6:11:08 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: bboop

It is estimated that in five years there will be more Christians in China than Communist Party members - which terrifies the Party. Further, that in 15 years there will be more Christians in China than in anywhere in the world ...


6 posted on 09/20/2014 6:25:01 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Zhang Fei

islam is an EVIL satanic death cult and a threat to free civilization.

All evil MUST be destroyed. Period!


7 posted on 09/20/2014 6:28:31 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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“... may radicalize Uighurs”

They are already radicalized. Just China getting a head start on what every other country will have to do.

Or maybe it is time to retest China’s neutron bombs on a few more Uighur villages like they did in the 90’s


8 posted on 09/20/2014 6:28:52 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Zhang Fei

General Chang taking care of business and getting it done...!

it seems to me that someone in the world is finally making some Muslims unnderstand what it’s like to be on the receiving end of the treatment they so eagerly dish out to others.

Meh, no tears here...


9 posted on 09/20/2014 6:55:47 AM PDT by gaijin
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That’s what genocide is for.

The moslems are incompatible with Chinese culture, therefore, there will be no Chinese moslems.

And that solves THAT problem.


10 posted on 09/20/2014 6:58:31 AM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Zhang Fei

China is not really into this Jihad-thing, so the Muslims there are playing with fire when they get radical.


11 posted on 09/20/2014 7:20:54 AM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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...live fire at non-violent Uighur demonstrations...- one that may radicalize Uighur...

Mohammedism echoes that to die for Allah will make you a martyr. And martyrs go to heaven. Translation: be a victim, obtain saintliness.

Imagine a punk kid in the playground who consistently kicks you in the shins. Restraint holds you until one day you give him his due. Then, his like-minded buddies descend on you while the punk wales and cries how you hurt him - victimhood.

See how the mohammedans cry for special treatment in the workplace (prayer rooms, head scarves, etc.) - victimhood

See how the mohammedans whine that they do not have a "Good Friday" as a day off. - victimhood

In a land of religious freedom, the mohammedans want to enforce their Sharia law where they are prevented from doing so, because...they are victims. The mother of those vile Boston bombers pulled out the victim card for her sons, when confronted by reporters.

This ugly religion demands submission yet the natural response is a passive-aggressive attempt at self control - victimhood. In mohammedism, victims have the power of saintly righteousness. Victims can justify making their "aggressors" into victims.

Mohammedism is a suicidal death cult. The only way to handle these barbarians is to do what the West is reluctant even to mention, grant their wish with prejudice.

12 posted on 09/20/2014 7:39:07 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (The next DNC convention will be spoken in Spanish; Press 1 for English)
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To: All

I love these feel good stories. Such a refreshing break from all the bad news out there.


13 posted on 09/20/2014 9:58:14 AM PDT by pluvmantelo (Democrats:the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
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