Posted on 08/24/2014 10:53:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Outside a mosque in China’s restive west, a government-appointed Muslim cleric was dodging a foreign reporter’s question about why young men of the Uighur ethnic minority don’t have beards when one such youth interrupted. “Why don’t you just tell them the truth?” he shouted to the cleric…. “It’s because the government doesn’t allow beards.” A plainclothes Uighur policeman swiftly rebuked the young man. “Be careful what you say,” he warned. […]
… Such a mood pervades Xinjiang’s south, a vast, mainly rural region that’s become a key battleground in the ruling Communist Party’s struggle to contain escalating ethnic violence that has killed at least a few hundred people over the past 18 months. […]
Also proscribed are certain types of women’s headscarves, veils and “jilbabs,” loose, full-length garments worn in public. Such restrictions are not new, but their enforcement has intensified this year in the wake of attacks Beijing has blamed on religious extremists. …
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China does not appear to have the kind of government that would tolerate open Islamic activity, and while it sounds rather draconian to us of the West, perhaps the Chinese have taken exactly the right stance on keeping tight rein on the Uighur minority. Apparently not resisting passage by Genghis Khan on his sweep to the west, those Muslim communities that did not attempt to resist the advances of the Golden Horde were pretty much left alone, so long as they paid the tribute demanded by the provincial governor, one of the lesser khans left behind by the Great Khan himself, but for the crime of being obstinate, the entire sector or province would be razed to the ground, and heads planted on pikes along all roads leading into that district, men, women, children and horses.
Let it never be said that the Great Khan did not rule justly and well. Not much mercy, of course, but mercy and justice are polar opposites, a fact that escapes many.
China is on the right track re: muslims and islam , here
China understands Islam.
I have no praise for communists, but I will say even limiting the appearance of islamists is a too soft approach.
The islamists are an infected, festering, flesh eating scab on all of humanity, and they need to be rooted up and driven out everywhere, into islamic land.
Once this disease is isolated in there own land, then extreme heat can be applied throughout their land to neutralize the deadly viral disease, that is islam.
They treat Christianity the same, remember.
And you cannot have true justice without mercy. Mercy is not the same as acquitting the guilty.
And yet they aid them against Israel.
I’m not singing China’s praises but what they do they do to protect themselves.
China is authoritarian, at this point the political ideology is irrelevant.
We need to work with Russia and China to eradicate this enemy, despite the differences we may have with each other.
Eff ‘em up, China. This is how its done.
Islam should be banned in all non-Islamic countries, and practice of it should be considered treason.
One thing is for sure when “there is no Islam” the goats will be relieved.
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