China’s Xinjiang province, home to around 10 million Muslims, passed legislation Wednesday prohibiting forms of religious expression including wearing veils in public places and growing “abnormal” beards.
Last year, “China’s top leadership….warned the Chinese people to shun the practise of Islam and to stick to China’s state policy of “Marxist Atheism.”
China has long cracked down hard on Muslims. Two years ago it was reported:
China forced imams from its eastern Muslim majority Xinjiang region to dance in the street and swear to an oath that they would not teach religion to children.
The Muslim imams were further forced to brandish the slogan that “our income comes from the CKP [Chinese Communist Party] not from Allah.
“China bans burqas and ‘abnormal’ beards in Muslim province of Xinjiang”, by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, March 30, 2017:
China has banned burqas, veils and “abnormal” beards in a predominantly Muslim province in what it claims is a crackdown on religious extremism.
The measures, which also force people to watch state television, follow decades of ethnic and religious discrimination against Xinjiang’s 10 million-strong ethic Uyghur population.
New regulations, to come into force on Saturday, require government workers in airports, railway stations and other public places “dissuade” women who fully cover their faces and bodies from entering and report them to police.
They also prohibit the “abnormal growing of beards and naming of children to exaggerate religious fervour”, without giving specifics.
It will be forbidden to “reject or refuse radio, television and other public facilities and services”, marrying using religious rather than legal procedures and “using the name of Halal to meddle in the secular life of others”.
Rules published in state-controlled media continue: “Parents should use good moral conduct to influence their children, educate them to revere science, pursue culture, uphold ethnic unity and refuse and oppose extremism.”
The document also bans not allowing children to attend regular school, not abiding by family planning policies and deliberately damaging legal documents.
Successive bans on select “extremist behaviours” have previously been introduced in in areas of Xinjiang, including stopping people with headscarves, veils and long beards…
Dr John says
Perhaps Donald Trump should try this.
mortimer says
Dr. J., your idea would lead to human rights complaints involving the freedom of religion, even though the JIHAD BEARD of Muslim males is just that… it is a MILITARY JIHAD BEARD.
Mohammed imposed the JIHAD BEARD and weird-looking CLIPPED MOUSTACHE upon his killer-zombie JIHADISTS so that they could quickly distinguish Muslims from Christians or Jews in BATTLE, and so that Muslims would not be MASSACRED by mistake in the heat of jihad genocide.
Look for the FULL BEARD and CLOSELY CLIPPED MOUSTACHE to observe a fully observant JIHADIST at heart.
Bamaguje says
Much as I disapprove of China’s overly aggressive anti-Islam measures that unduly infringe on religious freedom, they seem to working. Despite over 10 million Uighur Muslims, China has suffered no major terrorist attack like 9/11, or Jihadists running down people with trucks.
shosh7154 says
Because in China the families of those who carry out such acts would be butchered and videos of their dismemberment would be shown to the entire country as a message to those who would carry out terrorist acts.
MikeC says
Im pretty sure there has been a few major terror attacks in China though not in last few years. I recall a group of jihadis with swords killed about 30 people at train or bus station.
Don Foss says
Now and then when the Uyghurs raise up in protest, China immediately puts it down with extreme violence and cares not an iota what the West thinks of their dealing with pissed off Muslims. The Chinese authorities know well Islamic Doctrine. They snuff that shit out quickly and make sure a lot of blood flows. And Yes…we should learn a very good lesson from them.
gravenimage says
Actually, I’m afraid China has done a fair amount of appeasing of Muslims itself–including having exempted them from the “One Child Policy” and allowing them to carry knives when native Han Chinese are not.
Mazo says
Cravenmirage
Salars, Dongxiang, Hui, Bonan, are not allowed to carry knives in public unlike Uyghurs.
gravenimage says
I’m sure that is a great comfort to those slaughtered by Uyghur Muslims…
gravenimage says
This is a pretty major Jihad terror attack:
“China: Islamic jihadists murder 27, injure 109 in jihad attack at Kunming railway station”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/china-islamic-jihadists-murder-27-injure-109-in-jihad-attack-at-kunming-railway-station
Mazo says
Cravenmirage
It took eight terrorists armed with bladed weapons to kill 27 in Kunming. Thanks to the gun ban present in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Japan, South Korea, China, and Malaysia all have strict anti-gun laws which is why terrorists resort to knives. The police in Kunming killed four of the terrorists on the spot and arrested the other four since the terrorists couldn’t fire back.
While in other countries, one terrorist with an AK-47 mows down dozens of people. Ala Breivik or the terrorists in Paris, and the police had to move carefully to avoid getting shot themselves during the Paris terrorist attacks.
Western gun laws facilitate mass murderers.
Angemon says
Mazo posted:
“Japan, South Korea, China, and Malaysia all have strict anti-gun laws which is why terrorists resort to knives. The police in Kunming killed four of the terrorists on the spot and arrested the other four since the terrorists couldn’t fire back.
While in other countries, one terrorist with an AK-47 mows down dozens of people. Ala Breivik or the terrorists in Paris, and the police had to move carefully to avoid getting shot themselves during the Paris terrorist attacks.
Western gun laws facilitate mass murderers.”
Are AK-47 legally available to the general public? Or are the weapons used in such attacks mostly obtained via illegal means?
Angemon says
P.S.: Even if “Western gun laws” (which are some of the toughest in the world) facilitated mass murders, what drives the murder is their ideology. Orlando? Islamic terror attack. Bataclan? Islamic terror attack. Charlie Hebdo? Islamic terror attack. Berlin and Nice? Islamic terrors attacks. In those two, the weapon of choice was a truck. Should Western nations have strict laws on trucks as not to facilitate mass murders?
gravenimage says
Gee, Mazo–so sorry your coreligionists were not able to slaughter more filthy Infidels in their brave Martyrdom operation…sarc/off
gravenimage says
All true, Angemon.
After all, ravening Muslims did not have access to guns, gunpowder, or any other modern weapons for centuries, and they still were able to butcher millions of Infidels in their wars of conquest and oppression.
carol says
Three cheers for China. No tolerance for extreme idiocy and respect for their own intelligence and heritage. They can and will be ruthless and also have numerous lives to sacrifice if need be.
Jaem says
This is the first time I have to agree with China.
MR up-side-down says
I Love the way the Chinise stand against Evil Islam
mortimer says
The jihadist-style beard and CLIPPED moustache says to other Muslims: I AM A COMPLETE JIHADIST.
Our police, security and intelligence should be INSTRUCTED TO LOOK FOR THE JIHAD BEARD AND CLIPPED MOUSTACHE.
Lawmen and women, ARE YOU READING THIS? It could save your life.
Sam says
And the muslimas wearing garbage bags telling all the western women that they are sluts and deserve to be raped.
mortimer says
Sam, you ‘get’ it. Spread the bad news. If we all tell people the REAL explanation of K.33.59, then we have the problem half solved, since half the population is female.
Islam is a RAPE CULT, as is affirmed by K.33.59.
epistemology says
Great executive decision, the Chinese know how to fight against terrorism, you simply have to make it impossible to be a good Muslim. “… naming of children to exaggerate religious fervour” means calling your child Jihad is forbidden, something that would be impossible in Islamophile Western Europe. Bravo China
Mac-101 says
Can Chinese Muslims grow a decent beard?
Wakup says
Knock it off just stop paying aid money to pakistan.
John A. Marre says
China gets a few things right. China has been around a long time and wants to be here for several thousand more years, unlike Europe, Scandinavia and Canada which have signed their death warrant.
Kepha says
No, China does not get things right. It demands that people thank the f–g Communist Party for prosperity, when that same Party kept China backwards for more than a third of the 20th century and murdered millions.
Knowing Xi Jinping, this sounds like “Today Friday’s people; tomorrow Sunday’s people.”
I do not love Islam at all. But I will hold no candle for the world’s last, best hope for 20th century totalitarianism.
Guest says
To think communists are against Islam. I feel torn over this
LB says
IKR! But unlike muslims, modern Chinese communists aren’t hellbent about killing anyone who opposes their worldview, so I’ll side with them on this one even tough I disagree with their policy.
mortimer says
Communists in the past have INVITED MUSLIMS to join them against the establishment. (THIS IS WHAT LEFTISTS ARE DOING TODAY.)
Once the Leftists are firmly in charge, they BETRAY THE MUSLIMS and LOCK THEM UP.
Kepha says
Maybe for now. However, in their past, the Chinese Communists have been a very bloody-minded bunch, and Old Mao especially so. Let’s not forget that a combination of Mao’s struggles and purges plus manmade famines proved a lot more destructive to the Chinese people than many of their country’s national disasters.
Bsrat says
What a a great move, Muslims can’t mess with the Chinese. What a great lesson to the western world.
Spike1033 says
That’s what I like about the Chinese – the subtle PC approach.
Rick says
Lol!!!
marina says
You go China!!!
Eur says
Well done but no enough, they should baan Islam or give independence to that province and ban Islam in the rest of the country forever, let all the Muslims of China go. It is what we should all do, encourage the Muslims to leave, to leave us alone.
Mary says
After all the bad news of the withering of free speech in countries, this article made my day. At least one government gets it. Ironic isn’t it.
Kiel says
To deal with Islamofascism means you are going to remove what fuels their ideology. CCP is a totalitarian Chinese State System, cynical, and determined to get their will within their sphere of dominance. And they won’t allow jihad or something like it.
A Western system cannot compete with that. – But the Allied war on Japan’s Shinto-fascism in WWII is a success history. If you are willing to name the enemy, having the determining spirit, and the military power America and its allies can eradicate the worst elements in the political ideology of Islam.
Michael Ray says
I appreciate the fact that the Chinese oppose jihad. But, I cannot agree with their method simply because one cannot live as a Christian under those conditions. No Christian could agree to hold marxist athiest dogma and remain a Christian.
alex9234 says
Yes, and I can’t understand anyone who supports that tyrannical regime, as China is one of the worst offenders when it comes to Christian persecution. Believe it or not, even among the extreme right, there is support for that tyrannical regime.
Michael Ray says
There is no moral imperative to support godless marxism just because you oppose wicked islam. Both are equally evil.
alex9234 says
And you know something else, most westerners, like Americans, and most people in East Asia – Japanese and ESPECIALLY Koreans, spend very little time thinking about China at all. But the Chinese appear to be obsessed with Japan and the free west, and not in a good way…
AleX_ says
The pimp-gord (allah) is foreign to every non-islamic country.
The mohomedan abomination will be rejected by every decent nation.
mohomot’s ‘teachings’ are primitive, idiotic and harmful.
pislam is unacceptable by any cultural standards.
Sam says
“China bans burqas and “abnormal beards” in predominantly Muslim province”
I would love to be able to do that to muslims in America but unfortunately such laws would be used against all religions BUT Islam as it is a religion of peace you know.
Godwin says
Remember what the great conqueror of Asia n the ME, Ghenghis Khan had said to the Muslim……. ” I am the punishment sent by God to conquered you because of your great sins.”………….He n his hordes of horsemen almost killed of Islam in the good old days.
common sense says
Trump is meeting with China this weekend. If SJW’s of the west hear of this ban we are sure to see some crying.
They are quashing the devil here but don’t allow for any religion at all. One way or another a good move on the Niquab ban but not the beards. Muslims won’t give up their so called faith so easily and the jihadis are going to be all butt hurt now and beardless.
I’m surprised they let Muslims migrate there in the first place after Chinese lesdership told the Dalai Lama to his face that religion is poison.
alex9234 says
Well, China has a strong alliance with Pakistan, and I hear that they are also allied with Iran, so I’m not surprised that they let Muslims in. They also back Islamist terror groups in Pakistan, and other Muslim countries. Oh, and they also voted against Israel at the U.N.
Also, China exempts Muslims from the One Child policy and they allow them to carry knives as a cultural sop.
Did you know that China also supported the efforts of the mujahadeen against the Soviets in Afghanistan back in the 80s?
Godwin says
No migration. The Uyghurs are natives to Xinjiang for centuries. China keep it as its province to prevent it becoming the hot bed of terrorism, like Afghanistan, or it from becoming a province of other Muslim nations.
alex9234 says
Got it.
Kepha says
And the hui have been in China Proper since the Tang Dynasty.
Romans says
What’s the difference between Islam and Marxist Atheism? One believes in a God that doesn’t exist and one doesn’t believe that God exists; There is only One God that exists eternally: YHWH the Living God of the Holy Bible.
Katnis says
Best news I’ve heard all day
abad says
Good for China.
There is nothing Chinese about Islam.
Dominic says
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anti-graft-king-xi-jin-ping-pro-globalization-policy-promotes
frederick King says
China has a very good method for dealing with islam.
gravenimage says
Except when they appease it, of course.
Margaret says
Interesting. Maybe some in that community are actually listening to some of the critics of Islam. Via the internet maybe?
Mark says
This story isn’t true it was an April fool’s joke by the Independent. This blog has become a bit of a joke.
gravenimage says
This story was not published on April 1st.
Susette says
While I can understand that a country would not want islamic influence permeating its society, I don’t agree with China’s heavy-handed laws. It’s no different from the sharia laws in islamic countries’ rule by force. However, being able to enjoy the public sphere without seeing hijabs, niqabs, and those awful moslem beards would be a breath of fresh air!
shosh7154 says
not to mention being run down by a truck
Kepha says
Marxist atheism–Fie on it. May the day come when the Chinese people play soccer with the globular head of Mao’s corpse and chop up the rest of his worthless carcass for folk medicine. This same cult of the Great Goddess Historical Necessity is the same one that, once its in our cultural and educational institutions, touts Islam as the religion of peace and tolerance. Friends, it’s been a “YUGE” part of the softening up and demoralization of the West. It held China back by a third of a century or more while perpetrating mass murders that would’ve made a “Dark Age” barbarian warlord blush. Lions to Christians who pray for their salvation. the Marxist atheists are fat-tailed sheep on Id to Muslims.
Like the Muslims, Marxists who deservedly get into trouble whine about what pure, sinless martyrs they are after they’ve perpetrated murder, ruin, and misery on the masses they claim to liberate.
Worst of all, while they scream “RACIST!” at us day and night, you ask the Marxists why “unimaginable productive forces” didn’t emerge in the erstwhile Communist bloc, they’ll tell you about how backwards the poor Slavic Uentermenschen and primitice Asiatics are, and how poor Che and Fidel were left with nothing but the Mulatto masses when the Cuban Middle Class sailed to Florida (and kindly look the other way at all those Cuban exiles of color out there).
I doubt that China’s burqa ban will help at all. Clean-shaven Uighurs in ordinary clothes will probably continue to murder Han farmers in more out-of–the-way parts of Sharki Turkistan and now and then ambush a PLA patrol or throw a riot. And perhaps they’ll be harder to spot when they plant a bomb in a train station in central China. As for making people eat during Ramadan, it will probably radicalize thousands of fence sitters.
The Chinese regime deserves no praise here. Like good Leftists everywhere, they’ll use Islamic revolt in Xinjiang to jail harmless, wannabe-patriotic Christians in places like Fujian, Zhejiang, and Henan.
Mazo says
Its amazing what a country’s ideology can do for someone to suddenly switch to being an advocate of violent separatism.
The KMT fought against separatists and had the exact same ethnic minority policies as (1950-1958) and post 1980s Communist Party.
The Uyghur Bughra brothers mass beheaded Uyghur converts to Protestantism in the 1933 uprising and slaughtered Hindu merchants.
The Philippines, a pro-western state, has engaged in mass rapes of underage girls and massacres and brutality against the Moro Muslim and Lumad peoples, far worse more than anything that was ever by any government in China. Marcos’s thugs desecrate Mosques AND mass raped girls. Did Marcos have to add “Marxist” before his name for you to get outraged?
I don’t remember you ever condemning them once.
gravenimage says
Marcos was out of power for twenty-two years before this blog was founded, and as of today has been out out power for thirty-six years.
Pretending to be disgusted that Jihad Watchers are not outraged on a daily basis by Ferdinand Marcos is absurd.
For what it’s worth, I condemn him and most of his policies. Does Mazo feel better now? I would not count on it…
gravenimage says
Mazo wrote:
The Uyghur Bughra brothers mass beheaded Uyghur converts to Protestantism in the 1933 uprising and slaughtered Hindu merchants.
……………………..
Muslims mass murdering Christians, Hindus, and Apostates? Who ever would have guessed? sarc/off
Mazo says
The KMT was organized on a Leninist, statist basis and is very much against free market principles. It was against separatism and harsher in its policies ethnically, it did not recognize the southern ethnic minorities all over the southern provinces. Separatist Uyghurs hated the KMT, they described them as evil on earth and advocated violent overthrow and insurgency.
I suspect you also have nothing to condemn in Suharto’s forces committing mass rapes against Acehnese, Timorese, and Papuans and the multiple mass graves that line Aceh, Timor and Papua. If Suharto wanted condemnation from you, all he needed to do was declare himself a Marxist.
gravenimage says
What claptrap. Suharto was a vicious Muslim thug–something I’m certain most people here would agree with. He has also been out of power for almost twenty years now.
Our being enraged over Suharto on a day-to-day basis would thus make little sense—Muslims have committed so many horrors since.
But I condemn him and all his savagery. Somehow, I doubt this will make Mazo feel any better, either…
Kepha says
There you’ve nailed it. Everything wrong with the KMT came from its early openness to Marxism. it was the original Third World Liberation movement.
You have still not made me pro-Communist.
Lori K says
So, China demands rules for the Muslims who could very well plan an attack on China, yet they will kill, maim, or jail their people who practiced an ideology of peace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
Mazo says
How is the alien invasion of earth going? What about that 2 billion year old nuclear reactor in Africa? Can Master Li levitate people with his powers?
gravenimage says
Fulan Gong *is* pretty wonky–but my guess is that the main reason Mazo despises it is not that it is irrational–so is Islam–but that it is not savagely bloody like his own creed.
april says
Chinese people have a very interesting history
they even learn Chinese fighting and you don’t want to go between one of them
they be surprised when they start to cut off people heads because what well happen
is that they well be throwing halfway to the next wall if they haven’t learned that yet
they’ll be surprised to them . that’. why we let our children grows up and get an education