The US imposed “stringent sanctions on Iran” after Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, “a move which has enraged Tehran,” and now Iran is “backing China’s militarisation of the South China Sea” as it pursues a “military alliance with China” against America. Three years ago, Iran and China signed an agreement to enhance […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: China Ratchets Up Its Anti-Islam Campaign in Xinjiang (Part Two)
When the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan offered his preposterously sanitized version of how his government treats Muslims, he had no fear of being cross-examined. For he knew that Pakistan needs China, both as an economic partner, and as a military ally — China supplies 70% of Pakistan’s weaponry — and the Pakistani government is not […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: China Ratchets Up Its Anti-Islam Campaign in Xinjiang (Part One)
In May 2018, the Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Yao Jing, gave a lengthy interview to a Pakistani paper defending the Chinese government’s treatment of the Muslim Uighurs. Among other claims, he insisted that the Chinese government has given full freedom to the Muslims and allowed them to observe fasting during Ramazan [Ramadan]. Muslims in China, […]
China shields leader of Pakistani jihadi terror group from being listed as “global terrorist” by UN Security Council
China is allied with Pakistan, which is a state sponsor of jihad terror. Pakistan has also often “depended on China to protect it from the listing of Pakistan-based terrorist groups and individuals in the UN 1267 sanctions committee.” A Veteran US Army Colonel warned in December that “Americans need to recognize that Pakistan is not […]
Pakistan: Muslims murder four in attempt to storm Chinese consulate
“‘Fidayeen’ is an Arabic term that loosely translates as ‘one who sacrifices himself.’” “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Chinese consulate attack: Four killed in thwarted raid in […]
Muslim countries silent about China’s repression of Uighur Muslims
This Business Insider articles attributes the Muslim world’s silence about the Chinese government’s brutally repressive tactics toward the Uighur Muslims to economic interests. It may also be because the Muslim countries understand and respect strength and even brutality and injustice, while despising the weakness of Western states that are so afraid of charges of “Islamophobia” […]
Yao Jing: “In China Everyone is Free to Practice His Religion”
In Pakistan this May, Chinese ambassador Yao Jing gave an interview in which he assured his hosts that the Chinese government puts no restrictions on Muslims. Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing has said that Chinese government has given full freedom to the Muslims and allowing them to observe fasting in Ramazan [Ramadan]. Muslims in China have […]
China “building goodwill” in state-sponsor of jihad terror Pakistan
While the United States enters a low period in its relationship with Pakistan, China is quietly but steadily building goodwill in the country This is a particularly troubling story, as Pakistan is a state sponsor of jihad terrorism; back in 2011, China warned the U.S. that “any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an […]
Beijing shuts down popular Islamic bookstore, arrests its owner on suspicion of jihad terrorism
Clearly this is just another example of Chinese authorities persecuting Muslims, right? I mean, a Muslim bookstore owner involved with jihad terrorism? Inconceivable! After all, if he read any of the books he stocked, he would know that it’s a religion of peace, right? “Beijing shuts down popular Islamic bookstore ahead of Party Congress as […]
Chinese police order Xinjiang’s Muslims to hand in all copies of the Qur’an
I’m not in favor of banning books. Thought control and thought police are hallmarks of totalitarian regimes, and we’re getting perilously close to living under that boot on the face in the West. The Chinese authorities, like all totalitarians, are going to discover that they cannot entirely suppress thoughts through force. That said, this is […]
China removes loudspeakers from hundreds of mosques in Muslim-majority region
Artificial amplification is a relatively recent invention. For 1,300 years of Islam, the muezzin sounded the call to prayer from the minaret with his unaided voice only. These loudspeakers are a declaration of supremacy, a declaration of who is aspiring to be China’s new masters. “China removes loudspeakers from hundreds of mosques in Muslim-majority region […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Ding Gang’s Indian Lesson, and A Chinese Take-Away
At the end of August, an unusual article appeared in a leading English-language Chinese paper, Global Times. The author, Ding Gang, is a senior journalist for the People’s Daily, and his piece received a great deal of attention in India. For what he wrote — and he could not have published it without the Chinese […]
China bans ‘certain Islamic names’ in Muslim-dominated region
Names with strong religious meanings like Islam, Koran, Mecca, Imam, Saddam, Hajj, and Medina, as well as names that have “connotations of holy war [Jihad] or of splittism [sic – Xinjiang independence]” are included in the list….The new decree comes after Chinese authorities banned “abnormal” beards and veils in public places. Even China — known […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Prester John in the Forbidden City?
In the century after Muhammad’s death, Muslim armies of the Umayyad caliphate seized the Middle East and North Africa, crossed the Straits of Gibraltar, conquered most of the Iberian peninsula, and pushed deep into central France, where their forces were finally defeated, between Poitiers and Tours, by Charles Martel’s Frankish troops in 732; this marked […]
China bans burqas and “abnormal beards” in predominantly Muslim province
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 […]
Islamic State: “We will certainly plant our flag over America, China, Russia, and all the infidels of the world”
And one Islamic State jihadi threatened China’s “evil Chinese Communist infidel lackeys”: “In retaliation for the tears that flow from the eyes of the oppressed, we will make your blood flow in rivers, by the will of Allah!” “Infidels”? “The will of Allah”? Don’t these Islamic State fighters realize that their aggression has nothing to […]
China: Muslim murders eight in knife attack in Xinjiang
This BBC article makes clear what happened, but only indirectly. The uninformed and hurried may read this account and have no idea that this was one more skirmish in a global war. “China knife attack: Eight dead in Xinjiang region,” BBC, February 15, 2017: Eight people are dead after a knife attack in China’s restive […]
China: Muslims drive car into government building and set off bomb, killing one person
“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 […]
Hundreds, maybe thousands, of Muslims from China waging jihad in Syria
A global war that only one side is fighting and that only one side even acknowledges is being waged. “Hundreds, maybe thousands, of Chinese Uighurs fighting in Syria, warns Beijing expert,” by Ananth Krishnan, India Today, January 14, 2016: There are “many hundreds or thousands” of Chinese Uighurs from the country’s western Xinjiang province involved […]
Extradited Chinese national guilty of supplying Iran with goods used to make nuclear weapons-grade uranium
Nothing to be concerned about. Obama made a deal with them! Peace in our time! “Extradited Chinese National Guilty of Supplying Iran with Goods Used to Make Nuclear Weapons-Grade Uranium,” FBI.gov, December 18, 2015 (thanks to Banafsheh): BOSTON—A Chinese national pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with supplying Iran with […]