Posted on 08/03/2008 9:11:11 PM PDT by HAL9000
via translation-
ALERT - China: 16 customs officers killed and 16 wounded in an attack in Xinjiang
BEIJING - Sixteen customs officers were killed and sixteen others injured Monday morning when the attack on their post in Xinjiang, Muslim region of northwestern China, according to the China New Agency.
The Khara-Khanid dynasty converted to Islam. This was not conquest, and this is not Muslims trying to dominate China.
Of course, those Uyghurs who fall in with Al Qaeda deserve everything the ChiComs do to them. But the Uyghurs themselves are colonized and increasingly ethnically cleansed in their homeland.
Yes, what the Chinese regime is doing to the Uyghurs in there is really no different from what they are doing in Tibet to the Tibetans. If anything the crackdowns there have been more brutal than those in Tibet.
Yeah, they’re really cracking down—like forcing them to let their little girls go to school, learn the national language, all that stuff.
Seriously—the Islamists in China are no different from the ones around the world.
Muslims just can’t get along with anybody!
You guys are so predictable. A little disappointed to see this coming from you, TLR. Didn’t peg you as a guy who’d go ad hominum against someone with a differing view on China.
This is a typical imperialist rant. You are not an impartial traveler as you claims. To me, you sounds more like Chinese-American summer intern. At least, I gave you the benefit of doubt for a while. Calling me naughty would not stop spelling out what I think. Please keep informing us how 'normal' Chinese regime is, and I will take it with astronomical grains of salt.
Take it with as many grains of salt as you like. I just can’t in good conscience put myself on the side that wants to bomb busses and kill people because they can’t have their stone-age Islamic Republic.
Moreover, I can’t in good conscience join the “hate China” crowd. Like President Bush, I see China as a competitor and a partner, provided they continue down the path of social and reform they’ve chosen.
And if you keep repeating the lie that I’m some kind of Chinese intern or operative, unwittingly or not, you will be a liar.
I even know who you are now...pganini is back!!
I think you copied that word off a can of Chef Boyardi.
Yes, Braniac, all my commie masters are very proud of me. They gave me a plaque and some Starbucks gift certificates.
Please to be biting me now.
Holding minorities who do not want to be part of China must be one of the social reforms. It is not the Islamic terrorism which made China occupy Xinjiang. It was naked land grab. The same with Tibet. Your good conscience only works selectively.
China was successfully duping naive Westerners blinded by Marco-polo fairy tales and billion-men market. However, they do not value coexistence. Historically, they firmly believe coexistence is threat to stability and invite endless wars. That mentality has never changed. Even today. Deep down, they all dream that someday all countries in the world come to China with tributes and swear eternal loyalty to China. They believe what it should be, and that is China's destiny. If Bush does not see it, it is that he is behind the curve.
For China, coexistence has always been just a tactic. Domination is their ultimate goal.
Tibetans ask nicely (so far) for their autonomy. Still having a strong religious organization not beholden to Chinese regime cannot be tolerated. They are called all kinds of name they do not deserve. Now Chinese cry foul for stone-age Islamic Republic. After all years of helping Pakistani nuclear weapons' project and bankrolling anti-American Islamic interest behind the scene, Chinese claim now that they are victims.
Uyghurs and Tibetans do not want to be part of Chinese. Let them go. Not doing so would invite more terrorism or other militant actions from local population. Of course, I know that China try to solve it by flooding the area with surplus Han-Chinese, diluting the local gene pool. China never runs out of humanity, does it?
All these Chinese like to view themselves as a member of 'great empire,' while never realizing that oh-so-great empire see them as one of billions of cheapest disposable resources available.
The culturally desolate China, made possible by wholesale destruction by Mao of Chinese society, now only has raw powerlust and greed. It is all about how much territory they gain and how imposing they look to the outside.
STFU dude...you’re implicating yourself further here...there will come a point of no return and then you’ll get your backside zotted and then? and then we’ll move on to the next troll that you masters sign up for the FR-wallopping...
I couldn’t have said that better TLR. BUMP!!!
Here’s a link that substantiates what you say further. compound w(anker) is full of sh*t.
Don't you mean "unemployed middle-eastern yoots"?
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