Wednesday 27 March 2013

Islamophobia Even Spreads to China.

Lordy, even the Chinese are joining in with this heatless & unjustifiable vilification of the poor old Muslims & the lovely, peaceful & beautiful religion they only want to give to us. Twenty jihadists have been imprisoned in Uighuristan, western China, for spreading jihadist propaganda & trying to purchase weapons to kill policemen (but remember, these are weapons of peace.) This, from Reuters (hat-tip to Jihad Watch):

China jails 20 on jihad, separatism charges in restive Xinjiang

Chinese courts have sentenced 20 people to up to life in jail on charges of separatism and plotting to carry out jihad in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, the government said on Wednesday.

The courts in Kashgar and Bayingol said the 20 - all ethnic Uighurs judging by their names - had had their "thoughts poisoned by religious extremism", and used cell phones and DVDs "to spread Muslim religious propaganda", the Xinjiang government said on its official news website (www.ts.cn).

Some of them bought weapons to kill policemen as part of their jihad and spread propaganda related to the banned East Turkestan Islamic Movement, the report said, a group which China says wages a violent campaign for a separate state.

Many Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to Xinjiang, chafe at Chinese controls on their religion, language and culture.

China has blamed violence in energy-rich Xinjiang - strategically located on the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia - on Islamic separatists who want to establish an independent East Turkestan.

Some Chinese officials have also blamed attacks on Muslim militants trained in Pakistan. But many rights groups say China overstates the threat to justify its tight grip on the region.

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, said the 20 were actually guilty of no more than listening to the U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia and using the internet to discuss the importance of religious and cultural freedom.

"Giving heavy sentences to Uighurs (on the excuse) of terrorism is China's special way of carrying out suppression," he said in an emailed statement.

In December, a Xinjiang court sentenced three men to death and another to life in prison for attempting to hijack an aircraft in June.

I would usually support anyone trying to free themselves from the violent oppression emanating from Beijing, like the Tibetans. Any regime that would gun-down a thousand of its own people in Tiananmen Square is not worth a scrap of loyalty from any of its citizens or the citizens of any nation captured within its empire.

I would not align myself with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), however, designated a terrorist organisation by the US, UN & EU, they have murdered Chinese civilians & attempted to hijack civil aircraft.

Palestinian terrorists & their lefty useful idiots often try to con the rest of us that they're freedom fighters. It would be easy, given the nature of the Chinese regime to mistake the ETIM as such too. Bear in mind, however, that we would simply be exchanging a secular dictatorship for an Islamic one. And then Tiananmen Square will look like a Sunday school jamboree. 

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