“The government has blamed the unrest on Islamist militants, though rights groups and exiles say anger at Chinese controls on the religion and culture of Uighurs is more to blame for the unrest.”
Why, of course. What Islamic jihadists do is never their fault or responsibility, and never comes from imperatives in the Qur’an mandating warfare against unbelievers. It is always the fault of the Infidels. Everyone knows that. Just ask John Kerry.
“Five dead in attack in China’s Xinjiang,” Reuters, December 28, 2016:
Attackers drove a car into a government building in China’s unruly far western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday and set off an explosive device killing one person, while all four of the attackers were shot dead, the regional government said.
Hundreds of people have been killed over the past years in resource-rich Xinjiang, on the borders of central Asia, in violence between the Muslim Uighur people who call the region home and ethnic majority Han Chinese.
The government has blamed the unrest on Islamist militants, though rights groups and exiles say anger at Chinese controls on the religion and culture of Uighurs is more to blame for the unrest. China denies any repression in Xinjiang….
It said the four “thugs” drove a vehicle into a yard at the county Communist Party offices and detonated an “explosive device”, but were all shot dead.
Three people were injured and one other died, it added, without giving details….
In a separate English language report, the official Xinhua news agency described the incident as a “terrorist attack”. It gave no other details aside from those in the government statement….

JawsV says
“Religion of Peace” again!
Dave Flang says
“Religion of peace”, means blowing people into pieces.
eur says
Muhammad mentioned China so Muslims believe that China will be Islamic. The Chinese know the danger of Islam.
bernie says
Apparentky Mo sais,”Seek wisdom even if it is in China,” thus revealing his ignorance about was was arguably the worlds greatest civilization.
Len Vaness says
I will watch with great interest the actions taken against Islam in China
eur says
Say there are 20 million Muslims in China. The government censors parts of the coran that it considers inappropriate. Since antiquity they have considered Islam a threat against their civilization and have not been politically correct. China has committed barbarities against Muslims (and against non-Muslims), that’s true. It is also true that when they stop committing such barbarities the Muslims will continue with their massacres. Wherever they go, there is only death.
ECAW says
China censors part of the Koran? That would be a very interesting development. Do you have a reference?
bernie says
I imagine that Chinese Christians would generally fit in better. After all Christians can drink alcohol and eat pork and pretty much anything else, and the vast majority of Chinese Christians do not believe in waging violent crusades against Buddhists and Confucianists to force them to accept Christianity or pay jizya-like taxes.
On the other hand, perhaps some Chinese people associate the Christian faith with the unfirtunate history of Western colonialism in China.
eur says
China censors “Christian” themed films. The Muslim countries also censure those films because they prohibit showing their prophets … China censures Islam, Christianity … but only Muslims attempt, only Muslims want independence, only Muslims kill.
Soon the Muslims in the West (non-Western) will demand that films featuring Jesus, Abraham, Moses, Noe..should be banned
Kepha says
Speaking as an old consular officer with Chinese experience–
Communist China has serious problems with ANYONE and ANY organization that wants to or believes it had the right to exist independently and outside the state aegis. It is still officially Marxist, and regards all non-Marxist religion as the opiate of the masses.
Back in the early ’90’s, they were even nervous when a few hundred people in Kaifeng got interested in their Jewish roots and a handful of aging “foreign friends” went Frum in their old age, muttering darkly about what happened to the Soviet Union not too long after “those people” started getting uppity.
In the same time frame, when more 18 year olds in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Henan (the last province scarcely scratched by Christian evangelism in 1949) applied for baptism rather than Party membership (keep in mind that infant baptism is banned as “forcing someone to believe in religion”), there were heavy crackdowns on unregistered Christian congregations and believers.
The issue with Xinjiang/Sharki Turkistan is that you have both Islamic militancy going together with aggrieved ethnic nationalism. In that part of the world, the “indigenous people” are culturally, linguistically, and religiously Turks who stayed behind rather than heirs of the ancient Hua-Xia culture that formed China. In contrast, most Hui people (Muslims of Chinese language and general culture) see themselves as part of the Chinese state, even when they are dissident against the Communist Party.
Mazo says
The issue with Xinjiang/Sharki Turkistan
The Q in the Uyghur language is not the same sound as the English K. It’s a totally different consonant. You spelled it wrong.
Xinjiang is not synonymous with “Sharqi Turkistan”. Before 1944, even Uyghur publications would refer to the entire Xinjiang collective as “Eastern Turkestan and Dzungaria”, they only referred to the Tarim Basin as “Sharqi Turkistan”. Dzungaria was the homeland of the non-turkic, Oirat Dzungar Buddhists and not considered a part of “Turkistan”.
Until the Communist separatist Uyghur Ehmetjan Qasim decided to extend his territorial claims to the entire region and invalidate the indigenity of the native Oirat Dzungars in Dzungaria in 1944.
British agent Robert Mitchell in 1870 referred to Xinjiang collectively as “Eastern Turkestan and Dzungaria” when reporting on the war in the region.
Oirats like Dzungars and Torghuts will manhandle people who refer to their homeland in Dzungaria as part of “Sharqi Turkistan”. But they don’t have a free propaganda service in RFA unlike their southern neighbors, and they don’t migrate to cities like Guangzhou and whine about grievances to foreigners and aren’t trying to kill people.
The Bughra brothers and Isa Yusuf Alptekin, had those “Uyghur” Christian converts executed and beheaded in 1933 when they declared their “Republic” and they wanted to murder the Swedish mission members in Xinjiang, but couldn’t do it without upsetting Britain. Britain however didn’t seem too concerned when a lot of their Indian Hindu subjects in Xinjiangwere all killed on the Bughra brother’s orders, apparently because brown Indian Hindu people don’t matter to Britain but foreign Swedish white people do.
Isa Yusuf Alptekin later got five star treatment when visiting the USA Congress in Washington DC and addressing American Congressmen and his family worked for RFE. Somehow, the topic of the several hundred decapitated “Uyghur” Christian converts in 1933, consistently never got mentioned whenever Alptekin was interviewed.
The Jews in Kaifeng want free handouts by claiming they are discriminated against and economically disadvantaged, and to falsely file for asylum in other countries. They got asylum claims in israel and America by falsely claiming they were being persecuted.
Mazo says
I missed a slash after a b , I accidentally bolded entire paragraphs in the previous post.
Mazo says
Pal, its spelled with a Q as in Sharqi, NEVER with a K which is a totally different sound in Uyghur.
For long time in history, the vast area in N-W China, i.e. mainly Uyghur area, was considered and named as Eastern Turki/estan. Large part of today’s Central Asian independent republics, namely Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan together, was considered and named Western Turki/estan, including as part of the Russian then Soviet empire.
No, its not.
NW China is made out of two distinct areas, the Tarim Basin and Dzungaria.
Only the Tarim Basin was referred to as “Eastern Turkistan” (which only began in the 18th-19th centuries, its not an ancient name). Because its inhabited by Turkic Muslims. Before that, it was referred to as “Altishahr” or “Little Bukhara”.
Dzungaria was never referred to as “Eastern Turkestan” until the 1940s. Westerners, before 20th century ALWAYS excluded Dzungaria from “Eastern Turkestan” and did not use Eastern Turkestan as a synonym for Xinjiang because Xinjiang is made out of both Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin. Because Dzungaria’s native inhabitants are Mongolic Dzungar Oirat Buddhists.
Go ask an Oirat who lives in Dzungaria, whether Torghut or Dzungar, if their homeland is “Eastern Turkestan”. They will say no.
They don’t have a propaganda service in RFA to lie to people unlike their southern neighbors so that plays a role in their existence not being known.
Mazo says
Says someone who doesn’t know jack. The full Qur’an is available in China. There are Islamic religious schools in Ningxia, Qinghai, and Yunnan and entire Sufi orders running Mosques and schools. Muslims have served in political and military offices of China for centuries.
umbra says
For this incident, these four dead terrorists is just a start. The PRC’s security apparatus (right or wrong) will get to work on the families, relatives, associates and villages/towns where these terrorists came from.
Mazo says
You’re talking jack squat again. Rebiya Kadeer’s family is still alive, and so is Ehmetjan Qasim’s family and those are the ones who haven’t left the country.
mortimer says
The religion of peace goes on yet another KILLING SPREE.
Motto of Islam: “We love death.”
Stan Lee says
They can’t live in any other place than where Islam has control, they refuse to live in a non-Muslim state without plotting against it, without undermining any non-Muslim governance, and not only with words, but with mortal danger to non-Muslims. They must have control or else!
Then, the reality is also with the next problem; they can’t live with each other either. If between the Muslims, there exist some Muslims who believe they are religious and practice being religious, but in that practice have a ritual that other Muslims don’t recognize, then war between Muslim to Muslim breaks out. That issue has been in play in Syria, where the Assad government is Alawite, a spin-off of Shia Islam, and Sunnis fighting for Al Qaeda or ISIL, or whatever they call themselves from week to week. They must overcome one or the other, and that hate has been at work for more than 700 years.
There is no place on earth satisfactorily religious to these people, unless it is their brand of Islam.
In example: Iran is a large Islamic country, so is Saudi Arabia. But, they’re never far from total war with each other for one reason: For more than 700 years, Shia Islam (Iran) and Sunni Islam (Saudi Arabia) have been hostile to each other due to certain rituals each practices that are enough to make them go to war with each other. And, the hostility is passed on to each’s satillite Shiite and Sunni nations.
What they have in common is their mutual persecution of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus. or Atheists.
Therefore, if any Islamic state declares that it must control the world, we all know what they intend to do if they can gain that control.
All other faiths must be erased or Islam would stay at war until the erasing is complete.
captain says
Brilliant
IQ al Rassooli says
Dear Infidels/ Kuffar/ None Muslims, it is VITAL that you realize that one does not need more than two brain cells of logic to understand Muslims & Islam in a nutshell~
Every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth. 80% of current of none Muslim humanity
Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough
Every Muslim is therefore a hair trigger Time Bomb primed to go off
Only in the WARPED imagination of our elites can one find Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist Muslims because in reality Muslims are Muslims just as Nazis are Nazis and no one ever addressed Nazis as Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist
All other explanations are superfluous and redundant
It is time for every decent human being to go out in the street and declares these TRUTHS in public. No way can the elites arrest and incarcerate free people in their tens of thousands without a REVOLUTION ensuing
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Kepha says
Actually, Iran didn’t become Shiah until the Safavids, in the 16th century.
Angemon says
“Religion and culture”? Uighurs are mostly muslims. So, in other words, preventing jihad actually causes jihad. Hmmm, where have I heard that one before?…
marina says
The filth of Islam has reached China now
gravenimage says
They have actually been in western China for centuries now–with the historical body count to prove it.
Mazo says
cravenmirage, the oldest Mosques in China are in eastern China and are over 1,300 years old.
Islam in the Tarim Basin (western China) is slightly over 1,000 years old.
Mazo says
There is something called ocean travel, which is how Islam first came into China via the southeastern coast, cravenmirage.
gravenimage says
China: Muslims drive car into government building and set off bomb, killing one person
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Horrible. Muslims have been waging violent Jihad in China, just like everywhere else.
Mazo says
Like the
IslamicProtestant inspired Taiping and Eastern Lightning sects.Oh wait.
linnte says
Well now I don’t feel so alone. Even China will “get it” about Islam.
abad says
China – like Myanmar – need to deport their Muslim population to a nation where they would be more at home. I can suggest Afghanistan or Pakistan since they are closest to China.
umbra says
China’s current approach is not deportation, but population importation to out breed ROP types. In two or three generations, the population in xinjiang will be highly skewed towards the majority Han nation.
Mazo says
Very wrong, look at the difference in demographics between Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin. Dzungaria was a Buddhist Oirat area so the religious demographics have not changed.
Uyghurs are an overwhelming majority in their “homeland” in the Tarim Basin. Dzungaria is majority Han. Dzungaria wasn’t Uyghur land. Most Han people don’t settle in the Tarim Basin.
Kepha says
And then the Manchu waged a war of extermination against the Buddhist Oirats, opening up Dzungaria to colonization by Turki, Han, Hui, Sibo, and everyone else.
IQ al Rassooli says
Dear Americans, it is VITAL that you realize that one does not need more than two brain cells of logic to understand Muslims & Islam in a nutshell~
Every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth. 80% of current of none Muslim humanity
Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough
Every Muslim is therefore a hair trigger Time Bomb primed to go off
Only in the WARPED imagination of our elites can one find Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist Muslims because in reality Muslims are Muslims just as Nazis are Nazis and no one ever addressed Nazis as Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist
All other explanations are superfluous and redundant
It is time for every decent human being to go out in the street and declares these TRUTHS in public. No way can the elites arrest and incarcerate free people in their tens of thousands without a REVOLUTION ensuing
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
ECAW says
IQ – You go too far. It is not true to say that every Muslim is the enemy of every non-Muslim. Truer to say that every Muslim is the potential enemy of every non-Muslim as you say about them being potential mass murderers. In the meantime there are many, many Muslims who either ignorant of the full implications of Islam or who are just tribal Muslims born into it who don’t take it that seriously.
Muslims exist along a spectrum of piety and enmity towards the kuffar. It doesn’t help to insist that they are all at the far end of it.
Champ says
Truer to say that every Muslim is the potential enemy of every non-Muslim as you say about them being potential mass murderers.
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Can you tell the difference between the two? I certainly can’t …
I wholly agree with IQ al Rassooli and he hasn’t gone “too far.” It’s time to error on the side of caution, since it’s thinking like ‘yours’ that is unwise and dangerous.
ECAW says
No I can’t tell the difference except by actions, by which time it is too late. So I too would err on the side of caution in matters of immigration and general trust of Muslims but to claim as fact what is only a precautionary (and rational, as Voeg used to say) prejudice is logically incorrect. You yourself call it an error.
Champ says
Again, I agree with IQ al Rassooli and I’m not interested in playing semantics.
ECAW says
You are interested in playing semantics whether you own up to it or not. Calling an apple an orange just because you prefer oranges is semantics too.
Champ says
IQ al Rassooli wrote:
“Only in the WARPED imagination of our elites can one find Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist Muslims because in reality Muslims are Muslims just as Nazis are Nazis and no one ever addressed Nazis as Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist”
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Great comment, IQ al Rassooli! I *wholly* agree with you — word 4 word!
And regarding the portion of your comment that I’ve featured above, Bill Warner adds some brilliant insights to what you wrote …
SuchindranathAiyerS says
May Pakistan visit China more often
f c king says
China should consider using nerve gas.
Phil says
So now if China joins in on the worldwide fight against Islamic Supremacy that Trump called on the entire world to come together and fight this common enemy. That might include at this time. Russia, Turkey (?), Poland, Angola, Israel. It does not yet include, France and Germany. Maybe after next years elections in those countries it will.
The renegade says
China is just a bully. They know the Islamic terrorism problem and yet they block India’s effort in sanctioning terrorists like Masood Azhar at UN belonging to Pakistan just because they consider them to be an all weather friend.
Until the problem reaches mainland China with big terrorist hits, these F@#$ing Chinese communists wont get it.
I have good Chinese friends. It is sad that the dictatorial Chinese communists betray the aspirations and goodness of the average Chinese people.
But then again, communism and Islam have quite a lot in common which is why they make good bed fellows…..
Their friends Pak’s nukes which ironically Chinese helped develop will sadly have it’s say in China one day.
Its just karma, if you believe in such a thing.
China wake up! Islam is humanity’s biggest enemy, irrespective of the race or ethnicity you belong to…
Kepha says
I’ve got Taiwanese connections myself.
Prasad says
China is yet to learn the lesson….they are keeping the friendship with the master of terrorism..Pakistan.