“The incident followed several high-profile attacks blamed on militants in Xinjiang, the traditional home of the Uyghurs who complain they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness.” Mainstream media outlets that retail uncritically jihadists’ list of grievances don’t realize that these grievances are merely pretexts to justify jihad in terms of Islamic theology, under which only defensive jihad is allowed until the restoration of the caliphate. The pretexts may shift; the jihad will remain.
“Five Police Officers Killed in Attack on Xinjiang Security Checkpoint,” Radio Free Asia, June 22, 2014 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
Five police officers have been killed in a pre-dawn attack on a security checkpoint in China’s restive far-western region of Xinjiang after government officials harassed ethnic minority Muslim women wearing head scarves and men with beards, according to police and residents.
Unknown assailants on Friday stabbed two police officers guarding the checkpoint in Qaraqash (in Chinese, Moyu) county in southwestern Hotan prefecture and then set fire to a room in the building where three police officers were taking a nap, police said.
Residents going for early Friday morning Muslim prayers discovered the two wounded officers and the charred remains of the three others in the room and alerted the authorities. The two officers died on the way to the hospital.
The incident followed several high-profile attacks blamed on militants in Xinjiang, the traditional home of the Uyghurs who complain they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness….
Jay Boo says
TIMING
The next time that a large scale attack occurred on Chinese civilians like the knife attack, Obama will ‘coincidentally’ scold China about Trade issues and Human Rights and instigate China’s neighbors.
Mazo says
Radio Free Asia is the premeir propaganda news outlet for the American government and its agenda.
It will rely and report on any sort of hearsay and rumors as long as serves the American government’s agenda to attack governments it doesn’t like. An anonymous Uyghur from anywhere can phone in and report about any alleged incident.
There is no Radio Free Asia broadcasts in Moro languages in Mindanao, or minority languages in Indonesia like Acehnese, Papuan, or Moluccan languages.
If your country is an ally of America, your armed forces and the majority ethnic group can rape, massacre, and torture as many minorities as they want, and America will not give a damn and Radio Free Asia will not report about it.
America isn’t interested in broadcasting about Filipino (both military AND civilian) oppresion and torture of Moro Muslims.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/china-13-islamic-jihadists-killed-as-they-attack-police-station/comment-page-1#comment-1079326
There were mass graves and rapes going on in Aceh and Papua in Indonesia, in addition to the Philippines. America’s puppet dictators Marcos in the Philippines and Suharto in Indonesia ordered the massacre and rapes of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Gaddafi supplied the Moros and Acehnese and Papuans with weapons to fight these beasts.
Kepha says
@Jay Boo: Trade and human rights issues with China [I speak from personal diplomatic experience] were there back when the Elder Bush was POTUS, if not earlier. I will also add a mea culpa to negative reporting on human rights issues in China, albeit mostly about unregistered Christians, political dissidents, and journalists. This all happened back in the 1990’s, when I was a US consular officer there. As for the Uyghurs, I noted some of their issues, too, for I bought bread and raisins from them and got to hear their stories (BTW, their Chinese was sometimes worse than mine). If they were resisting the One Child policy (threatening to muck with Han male reproduction if the authorities mucked with their womenfolks’ reproduction), what can I say? My dear wife’s own distant rural Hakka kin elsewhere in Guuangdong were “disappearing” health officials if they got too zealous about the One Child policy, too–and the Hakka were mostly Daoist and Buddhist, with probably as many Muslims among them as you could count on your fingers and, perhaps, a noteworthy Christian minority as well.
Mazo says
Rebiya Kadeer’s father served in the pro-Soviet, pro-Stalin Ili National Army which massacred thousands of civilians with the help of the Red Army. She admitted it in her biography but left out the part about massacring civilians.
She mentions her family migrated to Ili (in Dzungaria) in the 19th century, but nowhere does she mention that it is Dzungar and not Uyghur land.
Ehmetjan Qasim was educated in the Soviet Union ‘s Communist University of the Toilers of the East and directly joined the Soviet Communist Party. Today he is still hailed as a martyr by Uyghur separatists.
There were raids in Xinjiang from the Soviet border in the 1960s and 1970s by pro-Soviet Uyghurs trained in the Soviet Union, attacking border posts and broadcasts on Soviet radio urging Uyghurs to revolt.
Uyghurs living in their home counties are exempt from one child policy, urban Uyghurs can have two children and rural Uyghurs can have four. If they stray out of their home counties then they are not legal residents like the tens of millions of other non-Uyghur migrant workers.
Hakka (who are not even an ethnic minority), Manchu, and Zhuang are not distinguishable from Han and are not generally discriminated against, and they have a massive population surpassing many other minorities, so many policies are applied to them fully.
Reality Check says
“The incident followed several high-profile attacks blamed on militants in Xinjiang, the traditional home of the Uyghurs who complain they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness.”
Let me see:
Ethnic discrimination? Islam is a religion, not a race.
Oppressive religious controls? Most probably they are not allowed to terrorize the entire community with loudspeakers during prayer time or prevent the infidels from carrying pork and alcohol in public and displaying the symbols of their religions without fear of offending Muslim sensibilities, to name a few. That sounds like “oppressive religious controls” to me.
Continued poverty and joblessness? The key to stopping poverty is work but Muslims do not have “hard work” written all over them. What they have is welfare and robbing the infidels through jihad – and every good economist (past and present) will tell you that welfare breeds poverty, not wealth.
Joblessness? Well, Muslims might be jobless through several reasons: 1) They had too many demands and they were not met, so they left. (Good riddance and thanks for your help); 2) They were difficult to work with, so they were told to take it or leave it; 3) You name it, for I’ve run out of possible reasons at this stage.
But of course, as Nikolai Sennels said, a Muslim never sees himself as the cause of his own actions. It is all external reality and everything is the will of Allah or the fault of the Big Bad Infidel. Hence the eternal victimhood status, the rage, the search for external culprits, hence the jihad. You can’t expect anything else from people who are incapable of taking a long hard look at themselves and who have been told since the cradle that this look is only reserved for the infidels.
harbidoll says
the biggest reason for joblessness its forbidden to work under an “infidel” . = attitude.
harbidoll says
the biggest reason for joblessness its forbidden to work under an “infidel” . = attitude.
Mazo says
This is about Uyghurs, not Islam in general. Your media is very unhappy that there are no Hui, Salar, Dongxiang or Bonan terrorists, so it can’t make much reports bashing China on that topic.
dumbledoresarmy says
Uyghurs are Muslims.
They read the same Quran as all the others.
Which means that I don’t and can’t trust them.
They are part and parcel of the Ummah, the Mohammedan Mob, the Allah Gang, the Empire of Islam. And therefore, when push comes to shove, they are committed to the same ultimate goal: the supremacy of Islam, Islam, Islam over everything else on earth that is not-Islam.
You can try to deny that basic fact till you are black in the face; you can pour out clouds of pixels, throw showers of sand, but I will not be distracted.
Islam is Islam is Islam, and Muslims are Muslims, whether they’re Uyghurs or Arabs or Malay or Urdu or …born-and-bred English like Samantha Lewthwaite.
If they haven’t publicly renounced Islam, then I will assume them to be part of the Mob and I will, prudently, treat them as such.
Precautionary principle.
Mazo says
I assure you that the vast majority of non-Muslim Chinese do not trust your kind.
el-cid says
Hopefully, the West will not make the same mistake they made in Afghanistan when the the USSR was trying to control it, i.e. the West created the precursor of the Taliban to fight the communists. In retrospect, it appears that the Taliban system is worse than the Soviet one.
God forbid we support the Uyghurs insurrection. The Uyghurs are a pathway for revolutionary, radical Islamic ideology to enter China as it has Indonesia and other relatively peaceful places in the last 20 years. Where ever this ideology gains a foothold, economic ruin follows.
I once heard it said that a key reason that the Ming Chinese abandoned their very lucrative maritime trade and closed their borders in 1433 was to stop the spread of Islam into their territory.
umbra says
Supporting an uyghur insurrection would be difficult and extremely foolish for the non-islamic world. The entire province of xinjiang is more of less under some form of security lock down (restriction on population movement). Insurrection without arms will lead to slaughters and the Chinese authorities are capable of carrying that out. Getting sufficient quantity of arms into xinjiang would be difficult for private ownership/possession of firearms is illegal in China and may be punishable with a death sentence. Consequently, these islamic terrorists have resorted to blade weapons and homemade bombs for their attacks. The outcome of bring knives to any gunfight is clear. As for bombs, they have yet to gain more effective bomb making skills. When they do and up the ante with high profile bomb attacks within China, the Chinese authorities will tighten the screws even more. Regardless of what these islamic terrorists do, the CPC will always respond to violence terrorists with even greater force and greater violence.
Mazo says
Both you and Howard are wrong. The Ming dynasty supported Muslim Sultanates like Sulu and Malacca in southeast asia and only stop the voyages because they didn’t bring any material benefits.
The Ming Emperors issued edicts for the protection of Islam and Muslims in China.
China fought and defeated the Portuguese at Tamao, and executed a Portuguese delegation in retaliation for their conqest of the Muslim Malacca Sultanate.
Howard says
You are right. Previous Chinese dynasties did try to stop the spread of Islam into China but to no avail. The damage had been done centuries ago.
Mazo says
Both you and el-cid are wrong. The Ming dynasty supported Muslim Sultanates like Sulu and Malacca in southeast asia and only stop the voyages because they didn’t bring any material benefits.
The Ming Emperors issued edicts for the protection of Islam and Muslims in China.
onisac says
Just because a Muslim isn’t working for a kuffar doesn’t mean he isn’t working toward he goal of Islam, to spread across the world, until all are Muslim, or dead…..
We make a huge mistake in our thinking that Muslims want to be more like the west or free people. That would include working for a non-Muslim. Which of course is a great wrong, since Islam teaches that only Muslims, are the only true disciples and followers of Muhammad the last prophet of Allah and Islam.
Don’t ever forget that Islam teaches it is the only true religion in the world. Which of course means they (all Muslims) are superior to all other religions including atheists. So why would they want to lower themselves to that standard or title? ‘Allah only saves Muslims, don’t you know’?
dumbledoresarmy says
A certain poster above, whom I shall not name, is at his usual nonsense – trying to prevent us from seeing the wood for the trees.
Time for a reality check.
http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/world-war-3.html
a world war is going on , but it is disguised as 1000 local conflicts
Mazo says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Tibetan_War
dumbledoresarmy says
Above, the chinese mohammedan says that “The Ming Emperors issued edicts for the protection of Islam and Muslims in China.”
Well, maybe they did.
But if they did…more fools they.
it is *never* a good idea for *any* non-Muslim entity to admit Mohammedans within its gates nor afford them “protection”.
Nor, for that matter, is it ever a good idea for non-Muslims to side with a Muslim entity against a non-Muslim entity, no matter how much they may dislike (with or without reason) that other non-Muslim entity. Many non-Muslim nations have committed that supreme folly, many times. And every time they did they dangerously weakened themselves and the entire Camp of the Infidels.
Mazo says
Could be none of your damn business. Why should China not side with anyone against rapist-colonialist imperialists?
Why should China have let the rapist-imperialist Portuguese escape without punishment for massacring and raping Malacca?
Why should Chinese have let the Spanish go unpunished for their massacres, taxation and hatred towards Chinese in Manila, while the Moros gave them shelter and struck back against the Spanish?
Why should China have not sent Muslims to crush the rapist-imperialist armies of the west and Japan in the Boxer Rebellion, like it did in 1900?
Why should China have let Tibet march in and seize Chinese territory in 1932 and not let them get punished and their territory seized like they what happened to them at the hands of Ma Bufang?
Is it not your logic that an imperialist aggresor should get punished and have its territory taken away from it? Tibet attacked China from 1930-1932 to seize Chinese territory before they were crushed by Hui Muslims, so they deserve to get conquered and ruled according to your logic.
Why should China have let the rapist-imperialist Japanese invade China without unleashing the anger of Muslims upon them?
I dare you to tell that to their faces and say that because Muslims in China fought Japan in World war 2, that it is not a “good idea” to be fighting the Japanese.
I dare you to tell that to all the people the Japanese slaughtered in Mindanao, Sulu, and Sabah, where Moro Muslims fought against and butchered the Japanese imperialists.