China says ready to protect nation after Al-Qaeda threat

Space Wat ^ | 10/10/2009 | Staff Writers

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

China said Saturday it was confident it could ensure the nation's safety after an Al-Qaeda leader called on members of the mainly Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang to launch a jihad against Beijing. "The Chinese government has the confidence and the ability to protect the safety of the nation, of people's lives and property," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement faxed to AFP.

Ma was reacting to a call made this week by Abu Yahia al-Libi, one of Al-Qaeda's top leaders, in a video recording posted on an Islamist website, according to the SITE Intelligence group.

"Let our Muslim brothers in Turkestan know that there is no way for salvation and that there is no way to lift oppression and injustice but with truthful return to their faith and attachment to it as much as possible; to seriously prepare for jihad (holy war)," Libi said.

He also claimed the Uighurs suffered from discrimination, and pledged the communist Chinese regime would face the same fate as the former Soviet Union, which Islamist fighters had ferociously battled in Afghanistan.

But Ma said in the statement that China's northwest Xinjiang region -- where deadly unrest broke out in July between Uighurs and Han Chinese -- "fully implemented measures of ethnic equality and religious freedom

[magooey]

Nasty time we live in now. Who will be tough enough to survive? The US can't even defund the enemy by drilling for its own oil.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

a real nice post Wiz i’m w/you on this one

[calex59]

Imposing their birth control policies on the people of China has led to a disaster for China. I would not doubt they will have to start a war soon in order to keep the lid on the 30 million sexually frustrated males of China who are without, and will certainly remain without, women.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I won’t be surprised if the message from Al Qaida was fabricated and in fact was faked by the ChiComs.

I would actually expect it.

Never trust anything a communist or the media says, they are the same.

[exPBRrat]

One good thing about this threat to China is that it puts all 3 great powers in the same boat. So if we all decided to get harsh and repatriate this scum better for all of us.