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in IslamophobiaUyghur Muslims forced to eat pork, drink alcohol and display festival banners by Chinese authorities to celebrate the Lunar New Year Festival
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang are delivering pork to Muslim households during the Lunar New Year holiday, and forcing some Muslims to drink alcohol, eat pork, and display emblems of traditional Chinese culture, RFA has learned. Residents of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) told RFA […] More
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in Islamophobia
Uyghur Muslims forced into labour in China’s concentration internment camps
The Chinese government has been detaining people belonging to Muslim minority groups for the past two years. In China’s northwest lies East Turkestan, a large province twice the size of Germany. East Turkestan is home to the native Uyghurs, one of China’s ten Muslim minorities, as well as Kazakhs, Tajiks and Uzbeks from neighbouring states […] More
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in China, Islamophobia
History shows China’s crude attempts to sinicise the Islamic faith will alienate Muslims
It is a shame that so few Chinese remember General Bai Chongxi, a brilliant tactician during the war against Japan in 1937-45. He showed China that it is possible to be at once a patriot and a devoted Muslim writes The Economist. Bai was a complicated figure. He was a reformer who wanted education to free […] More
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in Islamophobia
Xinjiang, China authorities sentence Uyghur Muslim philanthropist to death for unsanctioned Hajj
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a prominent Uyghur businessman and philanthropist to death for taking an unsanctioned Muslim holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to his brother as reported by RFA. Abdughapar Abdurusul, of Bakyol district in Ili Kazakh (in Chinese, Yili Hasake) Autonomous Prefecture’s Ghulja (Yining) city, “was […] More
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in Islamophobia
Police cut Muslim Uyghur women’s dresses for being ‘too long’
China has added another incident of discrimination to its long list of atrocities against the Uyghur minority in East Turkestan, which has led to the region being deemed as a “police state.” Police in Eastern Turkistan cut the dresses of Muslim Uyghur women in the middle of the street with the justification that their frocks […] More
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in China, Islamophobia
“Uyghur Muslims in China are being humiliated and we should bring more attention on their plight”, says Islamic preacher and activist
The Ugyhur Muslim community in Xinjiang, China has been receiving more coverage and awareness, which is much needed for they have suffered much against physical, mental and spiritual torture. Here is Shaykh Yasir Qadhi’s thoughts on the matter as he has been on a tour to China. “Having just returned from my first visit to […] More
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in Islamophobia
China bans Uyghur Muslims to stay as guests in hotels across the country and will fine those who keep them
Authorities in the southern province of Guangdong have fined the manager of a hotel in the border city of Shenzhen for breaking a ban on ethnic minority Uyghur guests ahead of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s five-yearly congress later this month. An employee who answered the phone on Monday at the hotel in Shenzhen’s Lo […] More
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China’s atheist communist party demotes official for not smoking in front of Muslims
A ruling atheist Communist party official in China’s volatile Uyghur Muslim majority Xinjiang province was demoted for not “daring” to smoke in front of local Muslim leaders which is regarded as a sign of timidity in fighting against religious extremism as reported by state-run media. China continues to use extremist approaches to tackle what they consider to […] More
