Posted on 10/01/2017 9:03:01 AM PDT by hapnHal
Xinjiang banning Quran? China asks Muslims to turn in holy book and prayer mats or face severe punishment
Extending its crackdown against ethnic minority Muslims in the north-western region of Xinjiang, Chinese authorities have asked families to hand-over all the religious items including prayer mats and the holy Quran. Officials in the region have told the families and mosques that Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz Muslims must give up all these items or face punishment.
"Officials at village, township and county level are confiscating all Qurans and the special mats used for namaaz[prayer]," a Kazakh source in Altay prefecture, near the border with Kazakhstan told Radio Free Asia. "Pretty much every household has a Quran, and prayer mats."
While the process has started in Xinjiang now, it has been reported that Kashgar, Hotan, and other regions have been witnessing this since last week. The authorities have reportedly been sending out notices through social media platform WeChat. The notices also say that apart from the Quran and prayer mats, people must also hand in any religious reading matter as well as things that have the "Islamic moon and star symbol on it."
Explaining the step, the Chinese officials have said that they were removing all the Qurans published in the last five years, as they featured extremist content. This is a part of China's "Three Illegals and One Item" campaign, which bans numerous items owned by the Uyghurs.
While the ethnic group sees these items as religious, the authorities believe they are illegal. These include knives and flammable items remote-controlled toys, and objects with symbols related to Islam. The authorities, who believe that these items help promote terrorism, have also deemed religious activities and teaching as illegal
China Government has the last say on everything.
If the Quran becomes a threat, then the Quran goes and so do it’s practitioners.
There is no tolerance.
I lived in Shanghai for several years - there was 0 crime against westerners.
You could go anywhere, anytime and never feel threatened.
How do you think that happens?
Democrats will be labeling China as Islamophobic in 3, 2, 1...
Yeah, never gonna happen.
Chinese government anticipating a shortage of toilet paper and looking for a suitable substitute?
Perhaps the remaining Muslims in China should flee. There is always Syria, or Afghanistan, or even Turkey, where I am sure they would be welcomed with open arms.
Got to replace all those Muslims who fled to Europe, you know. < /sarcasm >
If Allah was truly Akhbar, ones backside would burn if you used pages from the, “Koran”, for that purpose
You should be counting up.
To infinity.
8^)
It’s islam that should be destroyed, whereas after the fall of the nazis “Mein Kampf” fell generally into disrepute, and, but for the nazi allied muslims of course, generally fuels no real international mischief toady.
It should be banned as a hate book. Communism may not be the type of government for me, but it sure gets things done when it wants to.
Hate book, and terrorist paraphernalia.
Much as I’d like to see the Quran become very hard to come by, I can’t get behind a totalitarian state confiscating it. If they can come for one holy book, they can gin up an excuse to come after mine. They’ve recently banned children from church services.
Terrorist bombing ahead? Just askin’
Gotta hand it to the Chinese and Rooskies- they do not mess around when it comes to internal security. The trick is how to apply best practices from their skillset in a representative republic.
Am I getting close?
Take an 8 and lay it on it's side.
A totalitarian nation saying no to a totalitarian mind set. It ain’t the USA.
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