Posted on 04/25/2016 1:39:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Chinese President Xi Jinping says that China must be on guard against nefarious religious influences from abroad.
His comments over the weekend follow a tightening of religious space that has seen bans on the wearing of veils and beards in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang and the removal of church crosses in eastern China.
“We must resolutely guard against overseas infiltrations via religious means and prevent ideological infringement by extremists,” Xi said at a Beijing conference on religions attended by top leaders, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. …
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This mini Mao is just what China needs to hasten its inevitable implosion.
It would be sad for them to allow people freedom to decide their own destiny.
Fits a lot going on in our own culture
At least the Chinese People’s Republic is being even-handed in their suppression of religious fervor. Muslim and Christian communities alike have been prohibited from showing any external displays of symbols unique to their religious preferences. The Chinese are not much troubled about political correctness, not even paying it lip service.
Unlike the rest of the world, which has chosen to allow the prominent display of Islam while suppressing just about everything not Muslim, all in the name of being “politically correct”.
Then China should stop doing business / trade too with those who impose veils and wear a beard.
This most xenophobic of cultures has an unabated habit of opening up a little to the rest of the world, recoiling at what it finds, and then closing up and turning inward again. It is little wonder that the new millionaire and billionaire class is buying up real estate abroad for when the Great Wall Curtain inevitably closes again.
see how 25 years of open trade has done for religious freedom!!!
expect the same in Cuba.
The Chinese have had problems in the past with the Uyghurs; a Turkic muslim ethnic group in China and environ. I’m betting those are the ones the Chinese are most concerned about and do not want them to be further influenced by other Islamics of ISIS and AQ coming in from “the West”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs
If Malcolm X had been born in China would he have been Malcolm Xi?
Exactly.
Whatever you do, don’t call the Chinese Malcolm X a “weeger”.
They have a whole “autonomous region” full of them. They already forbid them to have facial hair and they ban the burqa in the capital city Urumqi.
That does not explain the restrictions on Christianity, or the suppression of Fulan Gong.
The Red Chinese oppose anything organized outside of state control.
At least the Saudis won’t be building any mosques in China.
I suspect when the Chinese economy inevitably collapses, and it will, there will be another Cultural Revolution in China.
Over 39,000 extant mosques are still no small problem. (That’s about 1,857 percent more mosques than the USA has.)
Well, the muslims are a group the Chinese are “most concerned” about (as said); Christianity and Falun Gong do not currently present the same potential of violence.
Yes, they’re opposed to anything organized outside of state control, though welcome business / trade with Islamic and Christian nations so long as it’s advantageous for the Chinese gov’t.
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