Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a trip to Beijing on Tuesday, reportedly struck a more positive note about China’s concentration camps for Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic group, and other Muslims in Xinjiang province a decade after denouncing attacks on Uighurs as “genocide.” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s administration joined the Muslim-majority governments of Pakistan […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: China Ratchets Up Its Anti-Islam Campaign in Xinjiang (Part Three)
In August, a United Nations human rights panel said it had received many credible reports that a million or more Uighurs and other minorities are being held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy” in Xinjiang. China says it is not enforcing arbitrary detention and political re-education. Aside from the […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: China Ratchets Up Its Anti-Islam Campaign in Xinjiang (Part Two)
When the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan offered his preposterously sanitized version of how his government treats Muslims, he had no fear of being cross-examined. For he knew that Pakistan needs China, both as an economic partner, and as a military ally — China supplies 70% of Pakistan’s weaponry — and the Pakistani government is not […]
China bans ‘certain Islamic names’ in Muslim-dominated region
Names with strong religious meanings like Islam, Koran, Mecca, Imam, Saddam, Hajj, and Medina, as well as names that have “connotations of holy war [Jihad] or of splittism [sic – Xinjiang independence]” are included in the list….The new decree comes after Chinese authorities banned “abnormal” beards and veils in public places. Even China — known […]
Islamic State: “We will certainly plant our flag over America, China, Russia, and all the infidels of the world”
And one Islamic State jihadi threatened China’s “evil Chinese Communist infidel lackeys”: “In retaliation for the tears that flow from the eyes of the oppressed, we will make your blood flow in rivers, by the will of Allah!” “Infidels”? “The will of Allah”? Don’t these Islamic State fighters realize that their aggression has nothing to […]
China: Muslims drive car into government building and set off bomb, killing one person
“The government has blamed the unrest on Islamist militants, though rights groups and exiles say anger at Chinese controls on the religion and culture of Uighurs is more to blame for the unrest.” Why, of course. What Islamic jihadists do is never their fault or responsibility, and never comes from imperatives in the Qur’an mandating […]
Hundreds, maybe thousands, of Muslims from China waging jihad in Syria
A global war that only one side is fighting and that only one side even acknowledges is being waged. “Hundreds, maybe thousands, of Chinese Uighurs fighting in Syria, warns Beijing expert,” by Ananth Krishnan, India Today, January 14, 2016: There are “many hundreds or thousands” of Chinese Uighurs from the country’s western Xinjiang province involved […]
300 Muslims from China have joined the Islamic State
Here again we see the appeal of the concept of the caliphate. Muslims never left their home countries to join al-Qaeda in these numbers. But Western authorities scratch their heads in puzzlement over the Islamic State’s ability to attract Muslims from all over the world. After all, what it does is completely un-Islamic, isn’t it? […]
China: Islamic jihadists murder 15 in Xinjiang
Notice how this AP report repeats the Uighur versions of events uncritically. They’re on the side of the jihadists, so they must be right — as far as the mainstream media is concerned. The mainstream media rejects in principle the idea that jihad against unbelievers is taught in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and so when […]