Note Reuters’ use of sneer quotes around the word “terrorist,” as if there were reason to doubt the Chinese account — despite the fact that Reuters itself records a leader of the Uighurs acknowledging that the incident happened: “A leading member of the ethnic Turkic Uighur community in exile said such attacks were a response to heavy-handed Chinese rule in the region.” Note also how Reuters highlights the Uighurs’ grievances and complaints, clearly favoring their side of the story over the Chinese side — as the mainstream media always and in every case favors the Islamic supremacist version of events over that of defenders of freedom.
“China says 11 ‘terrorists’ killed in new Xinjiang unrest,” by Ben Blanchard for Reuters, February 14 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
(Reuters) – Eleven “terrorists” were killed during an attack in China’s far western region of Xinjiang on Friday, state news agency Xinhua said, in the latest violence to hit a part of the country with a large Muslim population.
A leading member of the ethnic Turkic Uighur community in exile said such attacks were a response to heavy-handed Chinese rule in the region and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on a visit to Beijing, expressed concern over the state of human rights in Xinjiang, to the annoyance of his hosts.
“The terrorists, riding motorbikes and cars, attacked a team of police who were gathering before the gate of a park for routine patrol at around 4 p.m. in Wushi County in the Aksu Prefecture,” Xinhua said in an English-language report.
“Police said the terrorists had (an) unknown number of LNG cylinders in their car which they had attempted to use as suicide bombs. Several terrorists were shot dead at the scene,” it added.
Eight were killed by police and three died “by their own suicide bomb”, Xinhua said.Wushi lies close to China’s border with Kyrgyzstan. Last month the Kyrgyz government said its border guards had killed 11 people believed to be members of a militant group of Uighurs.
Xinjiang, home to the ethnic Turkic, mainly Muslim Uighur people and strategically located on the borders of central Asia, has been dogged for years by violence, which Beijing blames on Islamist militants and separatists who want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan.
“SYSTEMIC REPRESSION”
Exiles and many rights groups, however, say the real cause of the unrest is China’s policies, including restrictions on Islam and the Uighur people’s culture and language, charges the government strongly denies….
JamesonRocks says
I wonder if the Chinese authorities will send a bill to the families for the cost of the bullets as they once did for recipients of Capital Punishment?
Morgagni says
They wouldn’t be so foolish to waste their time, I am sure they are aware that Muslims don’t pay their bills…especially when the bills come from an Infidel government.
JamesonRocks says
Great story! Always good to see such wonderful news on a Monday. I wonder if the Chinese authorities will send a bill to the families for the ammunition used as they once did for those subjected to Capital Punishment?
mary day says
have a nice day!
Kepha says
I still think that Islamic militants and Communist China deserve each other.
dual space says
I’ve said previously that the white western imperialists like you hate China equally as the the islamic “desert” imperialists do. All you wish is that China and islam annihilate each other so that your supremacy could maintain for another century. The fact is the majority of the victims of these turkic Uighurs aren’t communists at all yet you are still claiming that they deserve the islamic militants. Fine, as long as the main target of jihad isn’t China right now, what you think doesn’t really matter.
I do not want to see your country and people suffer from the muslims.
Kepha says
Dual Space:
我并不恨中国。 本人为半个客家人。可是我承认我非常反共。
何矶法 敬上
Wellington says
dual space: Your paronoia, ignorance and hatred (e.g., “white western imperialists”—-really, do you actually believe this tired-worn verbiage?) are showing most glaringly.
Think you can be more subtle in the future? I mean just for making things more interesting, if for no other reason, concerning which option to date, you obviously haven’t explored.
Please, at least be more original, even if you’ll still be wrong. I’ll try to exculpate you then, promise. But I can’t right now because you are both boring AND wrong. How tedious.
rubnflo says
the Chinese gov has to make hard choices for the benefit of all. if not for the 1 child policy I believe China would not be the powerhouse it is today. they are thinking of what will affect their society in the future. they know islam can only make things worse in the future.
Jay Boo says
Ref to (1 child policy)
the Chinese gov has to make hard choices for the benefit of all. if not for the 1 child policy I believe China would not be the powerhouse it is today. they are thinking of what will affect their society in the future. they know islam can only make things worse in the future.
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If the Chinese government were wiser they would have a 1 Muslim policy.
In all of China
ONLY 1 MUSLIM allowed.
JIMJFOX says
Moral Equivalence Fallacy; Chinese Gov’t not blameless but they don’t kill indiscriminately
dumbledoresarmy says
Seriously, “restrictions on Islam” are what every single non-Muslim country in the world are going to have to institute, soon, and big-time, if they intend to survive *as* non-Muslim countries.
A sensible course of action for free-world nations such as the US, if they knew what they were doing (which at present they don’t) would be to robustly criticise China re. human rights abuses inflicted on Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, and assorted non-Muslim non-Han minorities, and to criticise and condemn China’s protection of the vile North Korean hellhole; whilst at the same time letting the Chinese know that mosque demolitions, and restrictions imposed upon the allah gang or mohammedan mob – which Mob threatens not merely ‘the west’ but all of human non-muslim civilisation and indeed all of non-Muslim *humanity* – are being seen for what they are: part of infidel humanity’s self-defence against the universal Jihad.
Suppression of language, I don’t support. Indeed if the Chinese were smart, they would give the Chinese Christians (armed with translations of the Bible into Uighur) a free hand among the Uighur, protect them resolutely, and let it be discreetly known that there would be heavy-duty *protection* for any Uighur who leave Islam and become Christians.
Robert4 says
Because Beijing loves Christianity, right?
dumbledoresarmy says
I said “*if* they were smart”.
fair_dinkum says
it IS a fact that the Chinese and the Russians are the ones showing the way.
secularism is everything. im glad that the likes of Putin and the Chinese govt are extremely zero tolerant of moslems. and that they can be even more brutal than islamic terror.
Putins efforts will be extreme, without too much crowing. theyll keep it covert as they will not want to give away what they know, and tipoff jihadis in Russia. China, by virtue of numbers, will use its millions strong army in more pitched battles on a bigger scale, just like this article.
Defcon 4 says
The amoral, apathetic worms at Reuters would have us all living under Sharia law if they had their way, or rather the way of their islam0nazi masters.
Christian A. Beltram says
Even thogh I do not condone the Chinese government’s human rights abuses, it deserves credit for cracking down on Jihadists within the country. If countries like England and France were as diligent as China’s government in combatting Jihadism, they would not be in the terrible shape they are in today.
jewdog says
China, like Russia, faces a painful Islamic terror and insurgency problem, but since both countries are anti-Western autocracies they support ant-Western Islamic governments like Iran and Syria, despite the glaring double standard.
shrugger says
I wouldn’t exactly call China “Defenders of Freedom”. But they’re not always the Bad Guy either.
Jay Boo says
[“The terrorists, riding motorbikes and cars, attacked a team of police who were gathering before the gate of a park for routine patrol at around 4 p.m.]
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4 P.M.
The number 4 sounds like the word ‘death’ and is considered very unlucky in China.
Shame on them … They should have known better.
Walter Sieruk says
That a person would actually want to be a jihadist suicide/homocide bomber is terrible indeed. What is also terrible are the false teachers being the imams and mullah who brainwash other people into believing in the Islamic doctrine of a paradise with many virgins in it for the jihadist who dies for the cause of Islam.The actual origin of this Quranic doctrine is , in reality, not from a divine source but it was taken of lifted from Arabian and Zoroastrine mythology the fused together and then inserted into the Quran and other written works of Islam. Now the doctrine/ myth of a place with virgins is now part of the whole hoax of Islam. Moreover, this type of myth/doctrine as that of a place with virgins and the false teachers of it was predicted in the Bible Which reads “For the time will come when come then they will not stand wholesome teaching but will follow their own fancy a gather a crowd of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Seconds Timothy 4:3,4. [NEB]
gravenimage says
I am *no* fan of repressive Chinese Communism, but there is no doubt that violent Islam presents exactly the same threat to China that it does to the free West and every other part of Dar-al-Harb.
These Jihadists don’t care that Communism is repressive—they oppose the Chinese government purely because it they are Infidels.
bernie says
A scholar of Middle Eastern languages named Christophe Luxemberg has argued that, the word “hur” (used in Arabic to mean “virgins”) is actually a mistranslation from the original Aramaic, which uses a similar-sounding word that means “raisins.” Okay, this is kind of old news, but it bears repeating.