Muslim executed for trying to "split" China

Reuters ^ | Fri 9 Feb 2007 | Benjamin Kang Lim

[zook]

I'm serious--I take great comfort in the fact that the Chinese won't tolerate any fundy Islamic crap.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Appreciated.

Your [acquaintances'] personal experience with the region and its people is much more credible than the idea that simply because people are nominal Muslims, they must be hunted down and killed.

[zimdog]

The Uygurs there can be extremely violent. This includes car bombs, murder, and armed attacks.

People in Belfast say similar things about "The Protestants" but that doesn't mean that all Protestants are terrorists.

[Wuli]

"Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs account for 8 million of the 19 million people in Xinjiang."

The ratio is less than that because the government is under-reporting the number of Han Chinese in the province.

In 1949 the Turkic-speaking Uighurs represented 60-80% of the population in Xinjiang, depending on locale.

The Marxist government's manner of development is to increase the number of Han Chinese in the province. Its the same slow (decades and centuries) ethnic cleansing by which the Han came to dominate central China in the first place. Ancient emperors or modern emperors, its all the same over the eons to "minorities" ruled by the Han.

Whether its the Uighurs in Xinjiang or the Tibetans, its all the same now just as it has always been.

[oldenuff2no]

China will not blink an eye at eliminating muslim trouble makers. If they cause too much problem they will outlaw the cult and execute them for just belonging. Good for China, let these idiots act like terrorists over there and they will be selling their organs on the open market.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

To be fair, the Chinese Imperial governments generally assimilated the peoples that they took over--by the method you mention, sending a lot of their people to live in the conquered areas, and then slowly taking over the people and area culturally. That's why Han Chinese are by far the largest ethnicity (which is not genetic, but cultural) in the world, while the ethnicity has a lot of genetic variation among them (i.e. both North and South Chinese can be Han Chinese).

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

[The PRC government] "will outlaw the cult and execute them for just belonging."

Sort of how they outlaw Christian denominations as "cults" and execute Christians "for just belonging?"

[Sawdring]

I guess China's One-Child Policy doesn't apply to Muslims in the country. Can someone confirm?

Ismail Semed, who was deported to China from Pakistan in 2003

Maybe he had the kids in Pakistan.

[san juan]

We're all awaiting CAIR'S response to this.

[xJones]

The Nuke Mecca Crowd admires all persecutions that target Muslims.

It's such a rare occasion, normally it's the Nuke Jews and Christians Crowd that get all the action.

[zimdog]

Have you really been here since 1999?

[xJones]

No, actually it was 1998, but I did a name change in 1999.

[Dutch Boy]

Do a search and you will find tons of information about Uygar ties to other terrorist groups and there violent activities. While there are many peaceful people there are plenty that are not.

If you want to see how peaceful it is walk around Wulumuqi (Urumqi) and see how safe it is. I would advise against it, as my Chinese friends have advised me.

[greenthumbedislndr]

I agree... we could learn a few things from the Chinese...

[zimdog]

My friends in Urumqi don't have any trouble.

[353FMG]

China will probably be the only country that will survive the muslim onslaught.

[zimdog]

I guess China's One-Child Policy doesn't apply to Muslims in the country. Can someone confirm?

I believe China's "One-Child" policy applies only to Han Chinese and not the national minorities.

[2111USMC]

I thought it was funny :)

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Urumqi also the capital of the region--and (guessing) its biggest city. A lot of big cities have a lot of crime. Outside of the city, it might be more peaceful?

[Dutch Boy]

They are lucky.