Little Mecca (the muslims in China, audio photo essay)

New York Times ^ | February 19, 2006 | Jim Yardley

[gogoman]

Photo essay with audio of muslims in China, and their disconnect with the muslim world. Mentioned how the Chinese muslims were silent during the Danish cartoon controversy.

"In a corner of China, Islam thrives but remains isolated from the Muslim world."

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/02/19/weekinreview/20060219_yardley_feature.html

[gogoman]

what will happen when they get in touch with the Mideast?

[gogoman]

direct link to audio slideshow (http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/02/19/weekinreview/20060219_yardley_feature.html)

[CzarNicky]

what will happen when they get in touch with the Mideast?

The Chinese will exterminate them.

[gafusa]

Yeah, China is not worried about the whole human rights, no torture, everyone gets a lawyer, etc. If they try any funny business the Chinese will string them up, actual guilt being less important than making a statement.

[monkeywrench]

More likely use them against somebody. A nation in the free world.

http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23499/pub_detail.asp

"Communist China’s bait-and-switch. Particularly problematic is the nuclear-related facility that the United States attempted (as early as October 1997) to prevent Iran from building with Chinese help--successfully so, we thought initially. Indeed, the Clinton administration publicly stated that China had agreed to cancel its plans to build the “hex” plant in Iran, in exchange for a U.S. agreement to sell nuclear power technology to the PRC.[14]"

"Once the American government declared the “case closed,” however, the Chinese proceeded to deliver the design information for the entire facility to the Iranians--including, according to former State Department official Robert Einhorn, blueprints of equipment critical to the operation of the plant.[15] The Iranians were then able to build the facility themselves, while China ostensibly adhered to its agreement with the United States.<'I>"

They're also building up pakistanee nuke capabilities.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Beijing will likely lose control of Chinese Turkestan, which belongs with Central Asia. Thus the SCO.

[gogoman]

I doubt it. There are now more Han Chinese than muslims there and the muslims there assimilate.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

[Cannoneer No. 4]

http://www.registan.net/~revrend/images/map1890s.jpg

[indcons]

Gogoman: Still posting the same pro-ChiCom nonsense, eh? There are more Han Chinese there because the ChiComs slaughter the Uighurs (like the Tibetians and Inner Mongolians). How many time sdo we need to tell you this fact?

Cannoneer No. 4 is right...East Turkesthan or Uighurstand belongs to the Central Asians; the ChiComs have no business there.

Of course, Gogoman does not even believe that Tibet was independent. Enough said....

[Cannoneer No. 4]

EAST TURKISTAN INFORMATION CENTER

[Cannoneer No. 4]

China's western border 'defenders'

[indcons]

Just FYI: the troll (Gogoman) has been suspended/banned.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

I don't recall ever running into him. I know a little bit about 'stans, though.

[Lejes Rimul]

He's right about the changing ethnic balance of Sinkiang, though.

[indcons]

True...the same thing is happening in Tibet and Inner Mongolia. This resettlement of the occupied territories in China has been accompanied by genocide, forced relocation of ethnic minorities, and sterilization of women and post-puberty girls (on a massive scale) by the national and provincial governments. In fact, Tibet already has a Tibetian minority and a Han ChiCom majority.

[Lejes Rimul]

I wouldn't go so far as to call what's happening in Sinkiang as genocide, more like Isreal-esque settlement. Nevertheless, the intent is to make the Uighurs the minority in their own nation. The ChiComs learned the lesson from the fall of the Soviet Union: the ethnic minorities are the first to rise up.

[tallhappy]

I wouldn't go so far as to call what's happening in Sinkiang as genocide, more like Isreal-esque settlement.

We see where you're coming from. Israeli settlemement as a type of genocide against Arabs. You're sick man.

[Lejes Rimul]

Clearly reading comprehension isn't your strongest skill.

[tallhappy]

Please clarify how Israeli settlements aren't quite genocide.

Please clear up any confusion concerning your comments on Israeli settlements..