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300 Muslims from China have joined the Islamic State

Dec 16, 2014 3:47 pm By Robert Spencer

Hkg9185420Here again we see the appeal of the concept of the caliphate. Muslims never left their home countries to join al-Qaeda in these numbers. But Western authorities scratch their heads in puzzlement over the Islamic State’s ability to attract Muslims from all over the world. After all, what it does is completely un-Islamic, isn’t it? Isn’t it?

“Report: 300 Chinese Nationals Have Joined ISIS Jihad,” by Jordan Schachtel, Breitbart, December 16, 2014:

Some 300 Chinese nationals are believed to have packed up and joined the jihad in Iraq and Syria on behalf of the Islamic State terror group, according to a report in China’s state-media.

Around 300 Chinese Uyghur nationals from the country’s Xinjiang province have linked up with the local Al Qaeda-affiliated East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), and have made their way to Syria through Turkey to link up with the Islamic State, China’s ruling Communist Party newspaper, the People’s Daily, reported. The report stated: “According to information from various sources, including security officers from Iraq’s Kurdish region, Syria and Lebanon, around 300 Chinese extremists are fighting with ISIS in Iraq and Syria.”

Chinese officials estimated in late September that some 100 Uyghurs had left for the Middle East.

The Uyghur people are a 10-million strong ethnic group predominantly based in China. Most Uyghurs identify with the Sunni sect of Islam, and a small minority have been accused of belonging to the Al Qaeda-affiliated East Turkestan Islamic Movement [ETIM]. ETIM has previously been known to work with Al Qaeda and jihadi outfits against the United States and coalition forces in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area.

Over the past year, Chinese authorities have reported multiple Uyghur Islamist terrorist attacks in which many were killed….

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  1. Zebo says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    Seems to me that there is country or region or race in this world where many muslims don’t missunderstand
    the peacefullness of islam.

    (as this territory belonged to china long before the primitive islam occured and long before the uighurs settled there the chinese should deport them to the next muslim shithole-afghaniSATAN,pakiSATAN or pedophilistan.

    • zebo says

      Dec 16, 2014 at 4:17 pm

      edit
      “that there is NO country or region….

    • particolor says

      Dec 17, 2014 at 4:26 am

      God Bless their Halal Certified Mandarins !!

  2. Bill says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    I can see the Chinese doing a deal with ISIS on buying oil in return for repatriating their muslims there.
    It’s coming to the time where ISIS or ISIL will have to be allowed to exist and totally contained.

    Perhaps we are coming to a point of schism within sunni islam.
    The fanatics have their own country to live in and the rest of us can get on with our lives and the non ISIS muslims integrate with the kuffar and everything is hunky dory.

    Yeah, right. Not.

  3. cs says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    They have in their army LingLing, Fumanchu, Bruce Lee, Lao Tze, Confuncius and other names to help out the war effort.

  4. rhondakelly07 says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 4:59 pm

    Don;t bring them to USA

  5. Charli Main says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 5:43 pm

    The donkeys ruling Europe, USA and elsewhere just don’t get it.
    We are involved in a global war with the Muslims. Muslim ” refugees”, Muslim ” asylum” seekers, Muslim “immigrants”, are all on the march against democratic civilization with the sole objective of destroying us. Muslims, like cancer, have infiltrated every aspect of Western Nations. The are in Government, the Military, Banking and Finance, Local Politics, Schools and Education, EVERY aspect of Health Care and Hospitals.
    The Muslims are gloating as Sharia Laws are systematically replacing national laws with the full support of the donkeys we have empowered to protect and defend the nation.

    • godwin says

      Dec 18, 2014 at 10:20 am

      These donkeys keep saying that it is the religion of peace until their countries’ men are blown into pieces. Still they say it is the religion of peace. Funny.

  6. Transmaster says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    Let do that, deport all Muslim to the ISIS. Put them all in one place let the murder and pillage each other and then drop a hydrogen bomb on what’s left.

  7. Angemon says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    Well, this throws a wrench in the “it’s a ethnic struggle against opression that has nothing to do with islam” excuse…

  8. Neil Jennison says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 6:16 pm

    Maybe, just maybe, the idea of ISIS re-establishing a Caliphate will eventually lead to a realisation in the west of what Islam is about? As the ISIS caliphate grows stronger it will inevitably draw in more Sunni Muslims……….and it will be harder for so called “moderates” to criticise it.

    • zebo says

      Dec 16, 2014 at 7:59 pm

      I do not understan how people like you can be so naiv?

      The western media and politicians are 100% aware of the trouble islam will cause.
      They have many experts with the knowledge of robert spencer.
      Do you really think that all employees of the press,TV & politicians in italy,Germany,france,England,Scotland,Canada,USA,Australia(just to name a few) are so dumb and naiv or supertolerant.
      Do you really think that all established politician parties in the west sing the muslim song by coiincidence?
      Do you really think that all opposition towards islam is attacked,defamed and stiffled instantly.That every reasonable slightly criticism is instantly attacked to prevent people from thinking in a critical way about islam?

      No,Sir!This is made by design!
      Our leaders are 100% aware of what is going on.
      That”s why they have created special laws long ago to protect islam,and just islam.
      That”s why they even destroyed freedom of speech to protect islam.
      They created even (wrong)terms like islamophobie to push muslim agenda.
      They use even the wrong term racism to defame islam critics.
      They did this long ago-before the flood of muslims appeared and they conditioned western people not to criticizr them.
      They have created double standards for muslim(the only reason the sidney killer was not imprisoned was because he was muslim.)
      They even convict people(like Ms. Sabaditsch-Wolff) for telling the truth(she just mentioned that mohammad liked little girls)
      When Pussy Riot did their ugly,blasphemic performance and were imprisoned the was an uproar in western Media.”Free these artists”
      When the english Girl was imprisoned for a whole year just because she put a small slice of bacon
      at a mosque doorstep-noone said a word.

      Do bhuddists have special treatment,or hindhus??
      No-because it is known that you won’t have much trouble with them.
      You can even criticize them and noone will call you racist.People will say:”well,let’s take a look wether the critics are justified”
      There was no need to create special terms like bhuddislamophob or hindhuslamophob to protect those religion.
      If you take a look how scientology is criticized and treated in the west(they don’t kill people) it is rationaly not to explain why islam is a taboo to criticism.

      If you take a look how badly gays and women are treated in islam it is rationaly not to explain why neither gay nor feminist group dare to criticize islam.
      The same people who will attack every single white christian person for the slightest negative statement about gays/women in a aggressive way won’t say a word about islam.
      They will attack you for criticising islam.

      Why?Because they were educated,indoctrinated and manipulated to act that way.

      You can be 100% sure that each time a taboo exists,that it was created by purpose to protect an ugly truth.

      • Salah says

        Dec 16, 2014 at 11:40 pm

        “No,Sir!This is made by design!”

        You’re absolutely right, zebo. This is made by design. Our so-called leaders are in bed with the enemy. They have sold us out for a few petro dollars and a few votes. These traitors need to face justice.
        We, the free peoples of the West, must remove them from power, we must remove them now.
        As I always say: They’ve done it in Egypt, and they’ve done it peaceably. Why can’t we?

        http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

        • zebo says

          Dec 17, 2014 at 6:55 am

          Peacable?I think they have used a certain “amount” of violence.
          They used as much vielence as they needed(not more) to push those idiots back because they knew that it is impossible to counter islamism in just a pecafu
          ll way ,as those animals only acceppt the language of violence and consider tolerance and kind behaviour a weakness.

          Sometimes you have to kill some dozen or hundreds of people to save tens of millions.

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Dec 17, 2014 at 7:02 pm

      Most Westerners wouldn’t realise what Islam was all about if Muslims started beheading infidels on their own streets.

      Oh wait….

  9. KeepItSimple says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 7:30 pm

    We are not yet making enough bombs to keep up with the recruitment of Muslims to Jihad. Our slow response to the growth of terrorism is encouraging others to read the Koran and follow the prophet. When we wake up we will have the Jihadists living next to us . . . they are already? May as well go back to sleep.

  10. Ayatrollah says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 8:14 pm

    Every believer dreams of an yazidi slave girl. These pious brothers are going to enjoy what allah has made lawful.

  11. Richie says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 9:28 pm

    Im surprised the Chinese tolerate these savages. Islam should be banned in China, all the mosques torn down, and all violent Muslims executed.
    If people want to peacefully practice the death cult in China, they should be deported

    • umbra says

      Dec 17, 2014 at 10:11 pm

      The CPC tolerate ROP types as long as they tow the line. When the play up, PAP goes in and clean up. However, the CPC is unaware of the true danger of islam as islam has not been able to show its true face in China.

  12. Kepha says

    Dec 17, 2014 at 5:55 am

    @Richie:

    Islam has been part of the Chinese landscape since the late 7th century. There is a mosque in Guangzhou purportedly built by Muhammad’s uncle, who sailed there with a bunch of other people who wanted to trade on the monsoon winds back in those days. The issue with Xinjiang/Sharki Turkistan is that there is a native culture and language which belongs with the Central Asian Turkic nexus rather than with intramural China; it was traditionally tributary to China rather than truly integrated with it; and these are other reasons why there is an active separatist movement there. It is a very different ethnicity from what you would find among Muslims in plaves like Yunnan, Henan, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shandong, Tianjin, or even Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai, places where Muslim political activity generally identified with issues effecting the Chinese state as a whole.

  13. Paul says

    Dec 17, 2014 at 10:34 am

    300 Uyghurstanis out of 10m is not a good reason for the masters of the New (新 xīn) Frontier (疆 jiāng) to be alarmed.

    It’s by the way that the Uyghurs comprise a little less than one half the pop. of Xinjiang

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