We have a Tiny Minority of Extremists who have Hijacked the Religion of Peace™. Chinese authorities have "criminal gangs." Both groups are simply Islamic jihadists. "Seven Killed in Suspected Terror Attack in Xinjiang," from Outlook India, August 19 (thanks to Sanjay):
Renewed violence struck China's restive Xinjiang province when seven people were killed and fourteen wounded in a suspected bomb attack today, local officials said.The explosion took place on a three wheeled vehicle in Aksu city and the local officials blamed the blast on "criminal gangs", an abbreviation used by authorities for Muslim separatists.
Official Chinese newsagency Xinhua quoted a spokeswoman of the provincial government as saying that the blast was being treated as a criminal case and that one suspect had been apprehended....
Xinjiang has been beset by ethnic conflict and separatist violence for the past few years and last summer witnessed bloody clashes between the Uighurs, the largely Muslim ethnic group and the majority Han Chinese settlers which left 197 people dead.
In the wake of the riots, authorities in a major crackdown arrested hundreds of people and about two dozen people were sentenced to death for inciting ethnic riots.
The provincial Governor Nur Bekri in a speech just before the blast had blamed Islamic terrorists for recent unrest in the region and said authorities were faced with a complicated separatist struggle....
For every jihad attack, they should raze a mosque to the ground. That would signal clearly the origin of the ideology.
From the article: 'provincial governor, Nur Bekri'.
With a name like that, he was born in a Muslim family.
I wonder whether he's an out-and-out apostate from Islam to atheism/ communism - protected by the power of the Chinese state - or whether he's a Muslim in taqiyya-mode, biding his time?
"A complicated separatist struggle".
Struggle, yeah. JIHAD.
If every card-carrying mosque-attending Muslim in the province was of Han ethnicity, not Uyghur, the Chinese would still have a jihad on their hands.
And if the majority-Muslim Uyghur got their wish (and if they were not Muslim at all, but rather, Buddhist and Christian and secular, I would be quite prepared to support the Uighur people-group in their desire not to be part of a Han empire, just as I support the Buddhist Tibetans' desire for independence) we already know what would happen next: they would be no better off than under the Han Communist rulers, and quite probably much worse off, once the sharia-pushers got going in earnest. Down into the Pit of desolation and delusion, just like Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran...
Obviously Nur Bekri is officially "atheist"--which means he worships Mao Zedong's mummified cadaver. That's how a COmmunist regime that still regards Stalin as a hero operates.
And, I do not agree that China would still have a jihad on its hands if every mosque-attending Muslim was of Han ethnicity. The Hui--Chinese Muslims who are fundamentally Han in most respects except how the Mainland government classifies them--have been separatist or Chinese-patriotic depending on a wide variety of local, cultural, and political circumstances. There are probably a large number of Hui who would be satisfied to remain part of a largely non-Muslim state provided they could have wider freedom of religion. Also, when the Hui went on a rampage in Qinghai in 1994, there targets were Communist Party headquarters and the police rather than other religious and ethnic communities or local foreigners. This suggests that this outbreak was probably more political than ethnic/religious in nature. Further, the devout or even semi-devout among the Hui may also be more susceptible to dissident sympathies largely as a result of being non-Marxist more than anything else.
However, I will concede that if the Qinghai-Gansu-Ningxia area were overwhelmingly Hui, it would probably be very susceptible to an Islamically-based separatism--at least at this point in history.
Conversely, the collapse of a regime in China can also bring out various regionalisms among the Han; and might even mean the division of the country. China's history has numerous instances of multiple states. There's a point to Chine being a civilization masquerading as a nation.
Even the Uighur are not monolithic. I understand that Urkesh Daolet (Wu'er Kaixi) has, since moving to Taiwan, married a Han, become a Christian, and ended up a local radio personality. However, it is also the case the Urkesh's upbringing was that of a son of Communist cadre; and he speaks Chinese better than he does Uighur. But there are also other Uighur nationalists who are more nationalist than Islamicist; and some of their propaganda speaks of surviving "Nestorians" or "Manichaean Christians" among their people--which is a way of hiding recent defections to Evangelical Christianity from Islam.
Even Muslim Uighur are sometimes very bitter about how the wider Ummah ignores their plight to curry favor with Beijing, and sympathetic to countries like the USA which provide asylum, and disinclined to view Western (or even Buddhist Mongol or Tuvan) Kufr as polluting, even when hostility to the Han is boiling.
Muhammad founded a cult that has brought nothing but hatred and discord between his followers (among themselves) and his followers and the rest of mankind.
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http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/07/perfect-man.html
Interesting article thank you. I taught school in China for many years until recently. One thing I would like to point out is that most Chinese are not athiests - agnostic perhaps. They are a wonderfully spiritual people. Many still practice the Eastern Religions.
I attended Mass in China and there are hundreds of Christian churches OPEN everywhere. It is true the State may not sanction religions. What is happening in the area we are speaking about right now is just typically Muslim. They are a mean bunch of bastards, hell bent on destroying the world. They don't care about the sanctity of human life at all. They are a death cult and are devil worshippers. I hope China crushes them immediately in every province of China and show the rest of the world that it can be done. YES WE CAN.
Be encouraged guys! It's obvious even to the lefty liberals who are so disconnected from the American people that you're making a difference! Keep up the good work,
I suspect that if the 'Hui' Muslims (comprised chiefly of Muslims of non-Turkic ethnicity) are quiescent in China at the moment, this is because they are still licking their wounds from the comprehensive hammering they got after the last time they went into full-on jihad mode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_revolt
(The entry on the 'Panthay revolt' is also of interest).
I know what people here think of wikipedia, but if one has any knowledge of Islam at all, and of its classic modus operandi - demographic jihad, war of attrition, infiltration and subversion, and all the rest of it - one can 'read between the lines' of the account there presented.
One sentence that says it all - "Between 1648 and 1878, approximately twelve million Han Chinese and Hui people died in ten unsuccessful uprisings."
China appears to have had its equivalent of a Bat Yeor, Robert Spencer or Enoch Powell, capable of perceiving the danger from the Muslim Fifth Column growing within:
"In the Qianlong era, scholar Wei Shu (魏塾) commented on Jiangtong's (江统) essay Xironglun (徙戎论) that if the Muslims didn't migrate out they were going to be like the Five Hu 五胡, who overthrew the Western Jin. The Qianlong emperor heavily punished Wei's clan. The people in Wei's village said this was unreasonable".
There is, too, a most suggestive and disturbing reference to the role played, in the lead-up to the last and most widespread of those jihad rebellions, by persons who had been instructed in Islam within the *Naqshbendi Sufi Order*...the very same order, let us take careful note, to which the sinister Fethullah Gulen, ensconced in the USA itself, belongs today.
"In the 18th century, several prominent Muslim clerics from Gansu studied **in Mecca and Yemen** {hmmm - dda} under the Naqshbandi Sufi teachers. Two different forms of Sufism were brought back to Northwest China by two charismatic Hui sheikhs"...
Off they go to Arabia and Yemen and they get their marching orders and come back home to plot, and plan, and stir up trouble...
Observe that the Muslims seized their opportunity the moment they perceived that the Chinese state was weakened:
"The prestige of the Qing dynasty being low and its armies being busy elsewhere, the rebellion that began in the spring of 1862 in the Wei River valley was able to spread rapidly throughout the southeastern Shaanxi."
One of the other relevant points - not as clear in the current version, as in an earlier version that I read, when the Dungan Revolt was referenced by 'Artemis Gordon Glidden' at New English Review, is this:
"In 1864, the Qing forts in Kuqa, Yarkand, and Urumqi were taken over by Muslim soldiers serving within."
And it goes on from there. The referenced books look reasonable.
At the New English Review, Glidden remarked "Note the role that conspiracy theories and rumor mongering play in rallying Muslims to battle.
"Note the eternal victimhood, the effort to portray their violence in terms of "self-defense".
"Note that Muslims serving in the army showed their overarching loyalty to the ummah, and turned on their non-Muslim fellow soldiers.
Note the inability of Muslims, when they reach appropriate numbers, to live under the rule of non-Muslims, and their violent demands for "independence."
And I added, in reply - "Reading the full account of the 'Dungan Revolt' and of the 'Panthay Rebellion', 'Artemis', one is struck not only by the points you already mentioned, but by other things that remind one of what Mr Spencer has discussed in 'Stealth Jihad' - the steady, conscious, deliberate 'white-anting' of the host society (e.g. by infiltration of Muslims into army and other key areas), all masked by a deliberately-created confusion which prevents the target from realizing what the Muslims are up to ".