"wait wait...Musrums?"
Posted on 08/04/2012 5:10:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Chinese Muslim officials as well as students under the age of 18 in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang are not allowed to fast during the holy month of Ramadan, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
In a bid to clamp down on religious extremism, Communist Party leaders posted guidance on numerous government websites restricting Muslim religious activities, including fasting and visiting mosques, the UAE-based newspaper, The National reported.
The Chinese central government has also asked officials in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region to discourage the local Muslim population to fast, highlighting in particular the health concerns.
The ban has led to exiled rights group to warn of new violence. The World Uyghur Congress warned that the policy would force “the Uighur people to resist (Chinese rule) even further,” according to The National.
“By banning fasting during Ramadan, China is using administrative methods to force the Uighur people to eat in an effort to break the fasting,” Dilshat Rexit, the group spokesman, said in a statement.
A statement was also released from Zongland township in Xinjiang’s Kashgar district saying “the county’s committee has issued comprehensive policies on maintaining social stability during the Ramadan period.
“It is forbidden for Communist Party cadres, civil officials (including those who have retired) and students to participate in Ramadan religious activities.”
The statement, which was posted on the Xinjiang government website, went on to advised party leaders to bring “gifts” of food to their local village leaders to certify that they were eating during Ramadan, we well statements posted with the educational bureau of Wensu county advising schools to ensure that students eat during the day and do not enter any mosques during the 30 day holy month.
There are around nine million Uighurs, a Turkic speaking and predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in the Xinjiang region, many of whom are shifting the blame onto China’s leaders, accusing them of religious and political persecution.
In July 2009, Xinjiang was the scene of violent ethnic conflict clashes, when two ethnic groups clashed, resulting in around 200 deaths.
How do you ban someone from fasting?
If they are executed, they won’t be fasting anymore....
And Christians will be prohibited from entering any Chick-fil-As in China.
China — the only major country that will deter the muslim onslaught.
One can only imagine....?
Well, they won’t be eating, either.
oh this is gonna be rich.
Well, at least China is being consistant about their religious oppression?
As opposed to certain government bodies that shall remain nameless, which ban the 10 Commandments from being displayed on the grounds that it’s too “religious”, while at the same time yeilding to sharia law.
Communists.
If they aren’t busy starving you, they’re busy forcing you to eat...
"wait wait...Musrums?"
Squaw Warren and I can agree, this is the China we want to emulate.
Who would have thunk - the junk from ‘made in China’ - their country would supersede America in standing for what they believe!
LOL! The irony is so thick that you can cut it with a knife!
I think that they should force feed those fasting muslims with Pork 3 times a day!
Spam them!
THAT might stop Ramadamadama fasting in 3 seconds flat!
The majority of the population in Xinjiang Province is Muslim, most of them Uygurs, related to and representative of the original nomadic Turks who swarmed west to conquer Byzantium. There has been a steady immigration of Han Chinese and they are politically (as in Communist secret police style) dominant but still amount to less than half the total population.
The Uygurs are a proud people and not at all kin to Arabs or Persians. IMHO, this will only push even more of them into covert and open revolt against their Han (Communist) overlords in a province Beijing relies on for quite a bit of their "domestic" oil supply. These aren't pacifistic Buddhists like the Tibetans.
No fasting for Musrums during Lamadan.
I'm not crying tears for the Muslim's though.
China — the only major country that will deter the muslim onslaught.They stopped a global muzzie advance eastward back in the year 950 or so... changed the history of East Asia.
What goes around, comes around.
The West stopped a muslim global advance and even kicked them out of Spain in 1492.
But we have a bunch of a**-holes in charge today who have no sense of history.
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