“On the morning of 21 June, a group of thugs drove a car into a police building in Yecheng County, Kashgar province and detonated explosives.” Once again the mainstream media treats such a report with skepticism. But why is it so hard to believe when it is happening in so many other places around the world?
“China Xinjiang: Police kill 13 attackers,” BBC, June 21, 2014:
Thirteen assailants have been killed in an attack on a police station in China’s restive western province of Xinjiang, officials say.
The attackers drove a car into the station and set off explosives on Saturday morning, the local government said on its website.
Three police suffered minor injuries but no civilians were hurt, it added.
The Chinese authorities blame Muslim Uighurs from Xinjiang for an increasing number of attacks in the province.
“On the morning of 21 June, a group of thugs drove a car into a police building in Yecheng County, Kashgar province and detonated explosives,” the local government website said.
“Police shot dead the 13 attackers,” it reported. It provided no further details.
Verifying reports from the Xinjiang region is difficult because access for journalists is restricted and the flow of information is tightly controlled.
‘Terrorist attacks’The authorities have tightened security in Xinjiang in recent months.
On Monday, China executed 13 people in Xinjiang for what it called “terrorist attacks”.
MapThe authorities also sentenced three men – believed to Uighurs – over a fatal car crash in Beijing last year.
Five people were killed when a car ploughed into a crowd in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square last October. Dozens of others were injured.
Attacks blamed by Beijing on Uighur separatists include deadly bomb and knife attacks on railway stations in Urumqi in Xinjiang, and Kunming in south-west China.
Uighur leaders deny that they are co-ordinating a terrorist campaign.
Activists have accused Beijing of exaggerating the threat from Uighur separatists to justify a crackdown on the Uighurs’ religious and cultural freedoms.
Of course. When it comes to Islamic jihad, as far as the BBC is concerned the threat is always exaggerated.
Jay Boo says
Ref to:
“Verifying reports from the Xinjiang region is difficult because access for journalists is restricted and the flow of information is tightly controlled.”
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If Obama starts a new round of criticism of China on Human rights, or trade and NPR replays it every half hour while joining in on the criticism then rest assured that Muslim Uighurs have just staged an attack.
Mazo says
You still don’t get it. Your media is NOT pro-Islam. Your media tries to take a dump on religion at every opportunity it can.
Your media is anti-China (and anti-non western countries who are regarded as a “threat” to the west).
Compare this trash report on China to the report on Moros killing Filipino soldiers, they are called Muslim extremists WITHOUT any quotation marks, and again, Abu Sayyaf’s activities- quoted by me here but it continues to pose a threat in the south, kidnapping people and carrying out bomb attacks appeared in the article WITHOUT any quotation marks.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/philippines-17-dead-as-islamic-jihadists-battle-soldiers
http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/17-Killed-in-Philippines-Clash-With-Muslim-Extremists/845476
Since that website was from India, (although it probably copied its article from a western news agency) I will show similar western media reports on the clash.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/philippine-soldiers-killed-in-battle-with-abu-sayyaf-rebels-1403178867
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/philippine-military-says-6-soldiers-and-a-marine-killed-in-clashes-with-abu-sayyaf-militants/2014/06/19/deddd02c-f787-11e3-9e63-ec28e320b8bf_story.html
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/19/philippine_militants_kill_7_govt_forces_in_clash/
Western media reports on Khair Mundos arrest in the Philippines.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/top-abu-sayyaf-commander-captured-1402478221
http://www.voanews.com/content/khair-mundos/1934332.html
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/11/philippines-nabs-major-terrorism-suspect/
Amazing! The entire articles go without any quotation marks or doubts placed on accounts provided by the Philippine government.
No mention of the American violation of the Bates Treaty and invasion and conquest of the Moros, American massacres of the Moro at Bud Dajo, the illegal annexation of Moro land into the Philippine commonwealth, the illegal settlement of millions of Filipino Christian Visayan colonists on Mindanao and the fact that they drove Moros off their land, the massacred of tens of thousands in Jolo by the Philippine military, the over 100,000 death toll caused by the war, the Filipino Christian Ilaga militias massacring and cannibalizing Moro women and children, and feeding on priests brains.
But for western media, a slew of false claims is obligatory when reporting on Uyghurs in China- somehow western media never mentions that the Second East Turkestan Republic was a Soviet backed satelite state, and its leader Ehmetjan Qasim was Stalin’s puppet, or the Soviet backed Uyghur separtists massacring thousands of civilians in the Ili Rebellion, or the Soviet backed Uyghur insurgency against China in the 1960s to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fact that the name “East Turkestan” was created by the Russian Nikita Bichurin, the fact that Dzungaria is not Uyghur land and they are also colonists and settlers there along with Han and Hui, the fact that much of the World Uyghur Congress’s version of Uyghur history is ripped right out of anti-China Soviet propaganda, written by Soviet Uyghur Communists like Tursun Rakhimov and Tikhonov.
Rest assured that your media is not pro-Islam. Your media hates Moros, hates Chinese, hates anything that is not pro-west. When Malaysia expanded relations with China, suddenly your media felt the urge to take a dump on Malaysia which it hadn’t felt before, reporting on Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial and lack of democracy etc.
If the Philippine military massacred and raped millions of Moro Muslims, your media wouldn’t bat an eye. If a Uyghur terrorist gets killed in China, your media will cry and claim innocents are being slaughtered.
gravenimage says
Here’s a load of crap from Mazo:
You still don’t get it. Your media is NOT pro-Islam. Your media tries to take a dump on religion at every opportunity it can.
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What Mazo—and every Muslim apologist—means is that it is not pro-Islam enough *for him*. Unless every news outlet was serving as completely uncritical propaganda for every act of Muslim savagery, he would be unhappy.
More:
Compare this trash report on China to the report on Moros killing Filipino soldiers, they are called Muslim extremists WITHOUT any quotation marks…
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Heaven forfend that Jihadists should be referred to as “Muslim extremists” without benefit of quotation marks—even this bowdlerization is too close to the truth for Mazo…
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…somehow western media never mentions that the Second East Turkestan Republic was a Soviet backed satelite state, and its leader Ehmetjan Qasim was Stalin’s puppet, or the Soviet backed Uyghur separtists massacring thousands of civilians in the Ili Rebellion, or the Soviet backed Uyghur insurgency against China in the 1960s to the collapse of the Soviet Union…
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The fact that a Communist state used Muslims at one time makes no difference—the Soviet Union didn’t *create* this savagery. That would be the Muslims themselves, who target *any* Infidel state, regardless of its ideology.
The upshot of Mazo’s comments is that we have not right to oppose Muslim barbarism, because it’s all—as he would have it—just cynical politics.
Try again…
Mazo says
Name a single Hui, Salar, Dongxiang, or Bonan terrorist, name a single one of them who has been in Guantanamo bay, name any terrorist organization consisting of those ethnicities.
You can’t, and your failure of a media is very dissapointed because of it.
Your media reports constant trash on China all the time in regards to anything, Uyghurs are just one aspect.
Your media consistently fails to mention that the 13th Dalai Lama ordered the Tibetan Army to invade Qinghai province of China in 1932, and got his butt kicked by Hui Muslim troops under Hui General Ma Bufang, and was forced to retreat while Ma Bufang’s forces overran more territory in Tibet until the Dalai Lama was begging for a ceasefire.
gravenimage says
Mazo—really, just the old Muslim “Horse” under another guise—wrote:
Name a single Hui, Salar, Dongxiang, or Bonan terrorist, name a single one of them who has been in Guantanamo bay, name any terrorist organization consisting of those ethnicities.
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What would that prove? There aren’t, for instance, any members of Boko Haram in Guantanamo, either.
But even if it were true that there are no current terrorists among these ethnicities, what would that prove?
There have been many cases where Muslims were present in small enough numbers, and have held off on waging violent Jihad for that reason.
For instance, the first Mosque was built in England in 1889—yet Muslims there didn’t get around to bombing the Tube or throat-cutting British soldiers in the streets until recently.
This had nothing to do with some sort of special nature of Muslims in Britain, but just demographics. Certainly, they have been threatening Jihad there for a long time.
But let’s assume that you are completely correct, and that Hui, Salar, Dongxiang, and Bonan Muslims are somehow intrinsically peaceful, and will *never* present a threat.
I’m sure their immediate neighbors will breathe a sign of relief. The rest of us—including neighbors of Uigher Muslims, aren’t so lucky.
Islam still presents a threat to Infidels everywhere—as shown by the story above.
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You can’t, and your failure of a media is very dissapointed because of it.
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What crap. I doubt many Western media outlets know much of anything about obscure Muslim ethnicities in Western China.
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Your media consistently fails to mention that the 13th Dalai Lama ordered the Tibetan Army to invade Qinghai province of China in 1932, and got his butt kicked by Hui Muslim troops under Hui General Ma Bufang, and was forced to retreat while Ma Bufang’s forces overran more territory in Tibet until the Dalai Lama was begging for a ceasefire.
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And this proves—what? That Muslims are always loyal to China? Someone should tell the Mohammedans in the story above about that.
That Muslim like to fight? I think we already knew that…
Ma Bufang was in most ways your basic Muslim warlord, perhaps with a bit more vision than most, but just as barbarous. Your constantly trotting him out as some sort of model is just ludicrous.
Mazo says
The total Hui population is greater than that of the Uyghur population, and have been in China for over 1,000 years. Salars, Dongxiang, and Bonan have been in China for 600 years.
Mazo says
The point is that Tibet and the Dalai Lama had irredentist and imperialist claims on China’s territory, contrary to your false western image of peaceful Tibetans suddenly invaded by China.
Simon says
You certainly are an interesting character Mazo. Although I have read some of your comments before, I am sure I have missed many of them on various JW subjects. Would you care to give us some background about your personal religious beliefs etc.? I doubt that you would like to see the type of Sharia ISIS is trying to impose in Iraq and Syria become widespread?
Mazo says
I suggest you ask an Iraqi or Syrian that question. China is a majority non-Muslim state for the forseeable future, and no Muslim minority in China is trying to change that or rock the boat. (Uyghur separatists want to split away from and not take over the rest of China) and all Hui, Salar, and Dongxiang are busy working to better their own economic situation, and lives, and China’s stability while maintaining religion.
Mazo says
I suggest you ask an Iraqi or Syrian that question. Hui, Dongxiang, Bonan and Salar are working to improve their own lives abd economic situation while maintaining their religion in a united China. China is a majority non-Muslim state and everyone in China knows that, nobody is trying to rock the boat and impose their views on the majority. Uyghur separatists want to split away from and not talke over the rest of China.
Mirren10 says
Why so coy about your ‘personal, religious beliefs’ ?
umbra says
China 13 – 0 islam
Anon says
Notice the technique the Chinese are using vis-a-vis jihadis, unlike the “free” media in the West. Unless it’s a major incident, the Chinese will cover up victories by the Jihadis, as mentioned in say, the RFA report of Uighur separatists attacking a police checkpoint. On the other hand, the Chinese will spend their time publicizing every time Muslim militants attempt an attack and fail horribly, to make Muslim militants look not only bad, but incompetent. The reason is because the Chinese state was born as a guerrilla movement, so the Chinese know exactly what they’re up against because their enemy is a mirror of themselves at an earlier point in time. They know exactly what they would have feared the most in that era, which is not persecution, but scorn. They understand the dynamics of separatist attacks, which is to destroy the credibility of their own government to bolster that of the rebels, so that young, idealistic individuals will be encouraged to join the insurgent cause.
They understand how to subvert that perfectly, which is to use media control to make separatist attacks seem incompetent, and I believe they only report the most laughable incidents, while suppressing anything that would lend credence to the insurgents cause. A young man who might otherwise become a Jihadi then becomes obsessed by the notion that all his friends and associates will laugh at him when he gets killed or captured in the most idiotic fashion possible, and instead of getting martyred and celebrated by his community, his corpse will be forced to wear a dunce cap.
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That said, considering that the Uighurs are Sufis who, when they get uppity, have the Sunni Hui tasked to rough them up brutally, and that the Chinese traditionally practice military cannibalism (Ming Dynasty accounts involve Chinese troops on the Mongol borders eating slain Mongol cavalrymen) while simultaneously having military discipline, tactics, and technique, you’d almost feel sorry for the poor Uighur jihadis. I would really be surprised if they amounted to anything other than a eugenics project aimed at increasing pacifist tendencies in the Uighur gene pool.
Kepha says
Question: Has Kashghar been separated from Xinjiang while I wasn’t looking? It used to be the main city in the SW part of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
dumbledoresarmy says
One lot of jihadis attacked…**mah jong players**.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-22/cuffed-xinjiang-axe-man-apologises-on-china-television/5542016
Arjay says
Only 13? Pity. The world would be a much better place if the number would have only been higher. Attacking a police station was for one reason only- create instability that will add to the domino effect of an Islamic China.
The Chinese need to remove the Islamic parasites once and for all.