Maybe they were reading some of those cheap, typo-riddled Chinese-made Qur'ans that had Iran so irate. Maybe that's where all that "misunderstanding" came from. "Muslim militant group claims western China attacks," by Chi-Chi Zhang for Reuters, September 8:
BEIJING (AP) — A militant Muslim group claimed by video it carried out recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people, a monitoring group said.
The video was purportedly made by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which seeks independence for China's western Xinjiang region, the SITE Intelligence Group said this week. The militants are believed to be based in Pakistan, where security experts say core members have been trained by al-Qaida.
Xinjiang is home to largely Muslim ethnic Uighurs (pronounced WEE'-gur) who say they have been marginalized by an influx of China's majority Han to the region. Ethnic riots there two years ago killed at least 197 people.
Security has been raised, but still, dozens were killed in slashings and arson and hit-and-run attacks in the cities of Hotan and Kashgar in July.
The more than 10-minute video released in late August features Turkistan Islamic Party leader Abdul Shakoor Damla, whose face is blotted out, saying those attacks were revenge against the Chinese government.
Ben Venzke, of Washington-based IntelCenter, another monitor of militant groups, said TIP threatened to attack the 2008 Beijing Olympics and should be taken seriously.
"Their profile has been heightened since threats made during the Olympics and videos have shown us that they have even received recognition from senior al-Qaeda leaders recognizing their presence in China," Venzke said.
In 2008, TIP released videos claiming responsibility for several bus bombings in China and warned Muslims to stay away from any place Han Chinese were, including buses, planes, buildings and trains.
"TIP is a very real jihadist group and their threats should be taken seriously. In addition to being active in China, we also have seen videos of them conducting operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Venzke said.
The latest video shows a brief biography and footage of what it says is Memtieli Tiliwaldi wrestling with other fighters in a TIP training camp. Xinjiang police had identified Tiliwaldi as a suspect in the July attacks and said they fatally shot him in a corn field days later.
In the video, group leader Damla speaks in the Turkic language of the Uighurs, who have with a long history of tense relations with the central government.
Militant Uighurs have for decades been fighting a low-level insurgency to gain independence for lightly populated but resource-rich Xinjiang, which borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and several unstable Central Asian states.....
Pakistan-based jihadist group claims responsibility for attacks in China that killed over 3 dozen
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The "Pakistani people" are no more allies of China than they are allies of the United States—we are all just filthy Kuffar, and all just "obstacles" to the spread of Islam.
Look what the Turks have done to Northern Cyprus, to what was once dotted with churches, convents and monasteries:
http://aconservativemind.blogspot.com/2006/11/lislam-e-le-chiese-cristiane-dossier.html
You'd think the Chinese might get a clue. India may be a regional rival in terms of great-power politics, but she isn't facilitating terrorism against the Chinese state.
Pakistan is a failed state and a menace to the region and the world.
As I repeatedly said here before, jihad against China, Russia, the US, Europe, Thailand, India and others will never end unless and until they all unite around Israel. Unite in Zionism. Only when all those countries, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan officially declare themselves Zionist nations the jihadis world over will know they have lost.
Instead, our disgraceful United States of America is playing a double game, whorring with the Islamic Uighur jihadis. 17 of them were captured for us by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, where those Uighurs fought our American GI's with al-Qaida. All were let loose, their bank accounts stocked with our tax dollars, flowin to the tropical island tourist paradise of Palau. Disregarding China's vehement protests. An English rag expressed "concern" that the jihadis, being "devout Muslims", will be "offended" in Palau by the sight of bikini-clad women on the beaches. Uzbekistan caught US State Dept. sociopaths red-handed handing millions of our tax dollars to the murderous Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan jihadis. A pattern is clear: aiding and abetting Islamic Jihadis in an effort to win their good graces in re-direct them against "the others". But the worst of all was the murderous war of aggression on the Serb Christians by the US, England and other Western democracies, and the brutal eradication of Christianity from Kosovo. To to put in power the rabidly racist, sadistic, genocidal KLA terrorists. The biggest drug dealers in Europe. The biggest child sex-slavers in Europe. The kidnappers, torturers, mutilators, organ-harvesters, murderers. All to please the Muslims world over. The unspeakable evil the US, England, and other Western democracies did unto the Serb people. The evil.
To be fair, China, India, and Russia do not dare to embrace Israel - whom they all like - in an effort to appease their large Muslim minorities. Does not buy them "peace in their time". East and West fall far below the Zionist standard. All appease the Muslims. And the Global Jihad is growing as an existential threat to all.
Zionism, and only Zionism can save Western civilization.
Zionism, and only Zionism can save the world.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Ruslan, China will NEVER rally around Israel. It may use Israel, but will never support her. Beijing sees the Zionist presence in the Middle East as a late case of Western colonialism, pure and simple.