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As the Chinese Communist Party is a totalitarian entity, it views any other authority or object of loyalty as a competitor that must be destroyed. That’s why the Chinese government has cracked down so brutally upon the Uighur Muslims, and now a leading ChiCom official has announced the end goal of that persecution: the “Sinicization” of Islam. The U.S., and the West in general, can learn a great deal from what the Chinese are doing: it’s a grand lesson in what not to do.
Reuters reported Thursday that Ma Xingrui, the Communist Party top dog in Xinjiang, declared confidently that the inexorable march of history toward the dictatorship of the proletariat and pure Communism would take care of China’s little problem with Islamic jihadis. “Everyone knows,” he asserted, “that Islam in Xinjiang needs to be Sinicized, this is an inevitable trend.”
The Sinicization is already well underway. Reuters reminds us that “rights groups accuse Beijing of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that numbers around 10 million in Xinjiang, including denying Uyghurs full religious freedoms. Beijing vigorously denies any abuses.” Also, ChiCom President Xi Jinping has on many occasions called for the “Sinicization” not only of Islam, but of Christianity and Buddhism as well, so that all religious expression becomes just another way of demonstrating one’s loyalty to the Communist state.
Sinicization, in the case of Christianity, has involved rewriting parts of the Bible to remove or alter passages that might inspire readers to think critically about Communism, forcing Christians to celebrate as heroes Communists who betrayed the Church, and requiring Christian teachers to attend Communist indoctrination sessions.
Will similar measures, applied to Islam, defang the Religion of Peace and end the possibility of jihad terror in China? That’s what Chinese Communist leaders are banking on. But they’re being short-sighted.
What is likely to happen in China, given the lessons of history, is that the “Sinicization” of Islam will proceed, and initially it will appear to be a comprehensive success. Muslims in China will appear to be practicing an Islam with Chinese characteristics, and to have assimilated completely into Communist Chinese society.
The Communist victory celebrations, however, will be premature. When the Communist Party begins to weaken, suddenly and unexpectedly, traditional Islam will begin to reemerge. Eventually, the Chinese Communists will discover that despite all their efforts, Islam has not become “Sinicized” at all, but is still pretty much what it has always been.
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Goofy says
The Chinese attempt to rewrite the Bible have been stupid and tasteless.
The encounter between Jesus and the woman caught in adultery is the prime example as Jesus in the Communist “Bible” ends up stoning the woman himself whilst declaring that he is also a sinner!
If the Chinese sanitize or sinotize the Qur’an by removing everything which is in conflict with Chinese law and in addition remove everything which expresses that Allah, his messenger and all their merry Muhammadans are superior to everyone and everything else the already small Qur’an will be reduced to a pamphlet!
We in the civilized west should have done that many years ago!
There is no excuse for allowing distribution of printed matter which encourages and even commands acts which are in conflict with our legislation.
This must be a perfect theme for a P.hD to compare and contrast the Qur’an with the laws of the land in Great Britain or any other country like Sweden which have serious problems with their Muslim population.
Frank Anderson says
Under US law and concepts, which certainly do not apply in Communist China, “religious freedom” DOES NOT include the teaching and practice of war, conquest, slavery, murder and other activities that are contrary to a peaceful and ordered society. See, A God Who Hates by Wafa Sultan, M.D. Islam has taught and practiced anti-social, intolerance for 1400 years and has killed between 250 and 1000 million people in that time (depending on who is estimating and where they look). Islam cannot change. See, The Unfinished Battle: Islam and the Jews by Mark Gabriel, PhD*. Its members risk death if they try to change or get out. Why were Hitler and Himmler so pleased with the alliance of Amin Al Husseini, and the formation of Muslim units in the Waffen SS? China may not have “clean hands” but is at least doing something to protect its society from the ongoing Muslim war of conquest declared 1400 years ago and which continues today.
.* (“If Islam were such a great prize why were millions of Egyptians killed forcing it on Egypt?” Paraphrased, page 52.)
bill53 says
“The Vatican lost everything and got nothing. I cannot understand why they would do such a thing. I’m sure that the Pope has the good intention to gain some space, some breathing space, and maybe one day you can get something better. Okay. But Parolin, the Secretary of State, knows very well who the Communists are: there’s no way to bargain with the Communists, you get nothing.”-Joseph Cardinal Zen creation to the CCP agreement with the so-called patriotic Roman Catholic Church
Walter Sieruk says
This shows that the Red /Green alliance is still going on strong and is as dangerous as ever.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I both agree & disagree w/ Robert on this article, and his assumptions. A good peek into what the future looks like can be gleamed by a look at its neighbors next door in Turkistan – Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. To wit:
➤ This entire region was first conquered by the Romanovs in the 19th century, and then the Soviets in the 20th. Under the latter, all religious expression was banned. Unlike the Chicoms, the Soviets didn’t single out muslims for persecution, and according to some former KGB defectors, some of the most loyalists for the Soviets were the Uzbeks and the Azeris
➤ As a result of 50-70 years of communist atheism, religious expression never recovered, despite the restoration of religious freedom. To this day, most Czech people are pretty atheistic, and most people in Russia and its neighborhood are more agnostic than anything else. The same has been true about the -stans
➤ In the -stans, it was initially thought that islam might make a comeback, and for a while, that looked the case in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. But after watching several YouTube videos of those countries, they have not really islamized. For instance, in Uzbekistan, alcohol is very much a part of their culture, despite being ostensibly muslim, and also, Russian is still a major second language in the -stans. Famous mosques that existed during Timuride, Khwaremid or Samanid rule are now museums
➤ One more thing the Soviets did was to emphasize ethnic identity, rather than religious. It explains why Azerbaijan, despite being shi’a, prefers Turkey to Iran, while Tajikistan, despite being sunni, initially expressed its affinity for Iran, although relations soured later. That’s one more reason that they are still reasonably tolerant, although their alliances w/ Turkey in the Organization of Turkic States (previously the Turkic Council) might end up in them islamizing in the long term
About the Uyghurs, the mistake the Chicoms are making is not in “Sinicizing” the quran, but rather, forcing Uyghurs to remain in Xinjiang as bonded labor. Instead, they should be allowed to move to countries like Kazakhistan and Turkmenistan, which are the oil rich countries in the region that could use the extra labor. Let them move there, let China flood Xinjiang w/ Han Chinese and strengthen its grip there. Rather than risk losing it in the long term
England Invaded says
Only good thing about Winnie the pooh and friends. They way they treat the carpet kissers.