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China: 39 jailed for “inciting holy war, spreading terrorism” in Muslim Xinjiang

May 21, 2014 9:01 am By Robert Spencer

china-unrest-police_wh8119“Critics say the security threat in Xinjiang is exaggerated by Beijing to justify hard-line measures, and instead point to economic inequality and cultural and religious repression of Uyghurs as causes of unrest.” AFP’s unnamed China “critics” thus agree with John Kerry, who has claimed that potential jihad terror recruits need “more economic opportunities.” Both Kerry and AFP both ignore the fact that a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, found that “terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.”

“Xinjiang jails 39 for ‘inciting holy war, spreading terrorism,’” Agence France-Presse, May 21, 2014:

Courts in China’s ethnically-divided Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uygurs, have jailed 39 people for offences including spreading “terrorist videos”, state media said on Wednesday as Beijing tightens security after several deadly attacks.

The 39 were given prison sentences of up to 15 years, the state run China News Service (CNS) said, adding that several had “organised, led and participated” in terrorist organisations.

In the past year Xinjiang has seen an increase in violent clashes which Beijing blames on organised terrorist groups seeking independence for the region.

Critics say the security threat in Xinjiang is exaggerated by Beijing to justify hard-line measures, and instead point to economic inequality and cultural and religious repression of Uyghurs as causes of unrest.

The 39 were detained on suspicion of “spreading violent terrorist videos”, CNS said. The names of several of the accused suggested they were ethnic Uygurs.

The heaviest sentences, of 14 and 15 years, went to two suspects accused of encouraging “holy war”, it said.

Some of the suspects had been found to have “incited ethnic hatred, ethnic discrimination”, while others had been involved in the illegal manufacture of firearms, it added.

Six courts handed down the sentences on Tuesday, the report said, including one in the western county of Aksu which has seen a number of violent clashes in the past year.

State media said earlier this month that more than 200 people had been held in a crackdown on “terrorist” videos.

Assailants armed with knives and explosives carried out an attack at a railway station in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in April, killing one person and wounding 79 as President Xi Jinping visited the region.

Chinese authorities blamed the attack – in which two assailants also died – on an extremist group it calls the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

Information about Xinjiang, a vast and resource-rich region bordering Central Asia, is difficult to verify independently, with foreign and local journalists subject to heavy restrictions.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    May 21, 2014 at 10:55 am

    Obama is just itching to scold China.
    Luckily China is not Myanmar and won’t put up with Obama’s running of interference for Islam.

  2. JIMJFOX says

    May 21, 2014 at 1:17 pm

    Obama does not have the balls to do what China does. So reassuring to see the Islamic menace being dealt with properly. GO CHINA!!!!

  3. mark says

    May 21, 2014 at 1:57 pm

    We can put China down and we can put North Korea down for many things. But let’s take good lessons wherever they are found. Terrorists are afraid of countries like those, or of Iraq under Hussein. Once you begin to crack down hard on terrorists, with hard line jails and no nonsense justice, terrorism will shrivel up a lot. Refuse to crack down, and you are a soft target.

  4. Zman says

    May 21, 2014 at 10:22 pm

    Just seen on the web that there was an explosion just now in the Capitol of Xinjaing.

    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-05/22/c_133352368.htm

    China was the last place I would have thought to have Islamist extremist. I learned of them when they went on that stabbing spree.

  5. karpenter says

    May 22, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    The Social Justice Mongers Will Never See That
    Poverty Doesn’t Create Crime,
    It’s Crime That Creates Poverty

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