Genesis
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Too much has been said about the China's Islam "problem", but not many are focusing on the next part of this word puzzle, extremism and separatism. China isn't a fan of religion, that was true in the 1960s, and it's less true today. We must distingush between China against Islam, and China angainst Extremist and Separtists, who happens to be Muslim.
Case and point is that China is also against and won't hesitate to use force against Taiwan, who is ruled by a rival government that BOTH claims to be greater China, exactly like the Confederacy in the US. Taiwan is neither religious nor of a different race.
Separatism and Extremism are the focus of this campaign, it just so happens, some are using religion as a tool.
If I understand the Pakistan, middle east situation correctly, Pakistan and ME countries are also against the extremism of Islam, and certainly separatists.
The continued terriorsm inside both Pakistan and Middle East are also being fought with force, and most importantly, a lot of news I read does say Islamic countries don't recoinize ISIS or any separatists' Islam as being part of the faith.
What's also not mentioned is Uygur celebrities are also coming out in support of government efforts on anti terrorism and the intergration of the Uygur people as a whole. Uygur people's voices are not heard, part of it is because we closed it off, but it's also because they don't want to look in the big cities in Xinjiang, but only those villages that are the breading ground of extremism. If you were to just go into the South of America, you might think America is a nation of cousin kissers and Nazi worshippers.
This is a distinction often left out when certain groups try to paint China as anti Islam. We may not encourage it, but we certainly don't outlaw Islam for the other millions of followers, we have trips that bring people to the Haj every year, and we have official temples and Imans.
We have programs that bring foriegn Imans into China to teach, and we certainly have classes for people to learn their language if they choose to.
The recent banning of Burka, and the cracking down is against the separatists, and the terriorists, not against Islam in general, if that were true, we be cracking down more. remember china is 1.3 billion, we don't have a little bit of anything.
China and Pakistan relationship is bult on the foundation of mutual strategic, economic and political interests. that was true in the 60s, and it's true today. Pakistan opened the way for America and China's renewed "friendship", and China is now investing billions into Pakistan.
We have mutual disdain for terror and separatism, to say the least, which makes our goal very much the same in this field as well, to claim otherwise, you either need to prove Pakistan is not against Separatists and Terrorists, or China is against Islam as a whole rather than the specific people who are using Islam as a tool for separatism and terror.
Case and point is that China is also against and won't hesitate to use force against Taiwan, who is ruled by a rival government that BOTH claims to be greater China, exactly like the Confederacy in the US. Taiwan is neither religious nor of a different race.
Separatism and Extremism are the focus of this campaign, it just so happens, some are using religion as a tool.
If I understand the Pakistan, middle east situation correctly, Pakistan and ME countries are also against the extremism of Islam, and certainly separatists.
The continued terriorsm inside both Pakistan and Middle East are also being fought with force, and most importantly, a lot of news I read does say Islamic countries don't recoinize ISIS or any separatists' Islam as being part of the faith.
What's also not mentioned is Uygur celebrities are also coming out in support of government efforts on anti terrorism and the intergration of the Uygur people as a whole. Uygur people's voices are not heard, part of it is because we closed it off, but it's also because they don't want to look in the big cities in Xinjiang, but only those villages that are the breading ground of extremism. If you were to just go into the South of America, you might think America is a nation of cousin kissers and Nazi worshippers.
This is a distinction often left out when certain groups try to paint China as anti Islam. We may not encourage it, but we certainly don't outlaw Islam for the other millions of followers, we have trips that bring people to the Haj every year, and we have official temples and Imans.
We have programs that bring foriegn Imans into China to teach, and we certainly have classes for people to learn their language if they choose to.
The recent banning of Burka, and the cracking down is against the separatists, and the terriorists, not against Islam in general, if that were true, we be cracking down more. remember china is 1.3 billion, we don't have a little bit of anything.
China and Pakistan relationship is bult on the foundation of mutual strategic, economic and political interests. that was true in the 60s, and it's true today. Pakistan opened the way for America and China's renewed "friendship", and China is now investing billions into Pakistan.
We have mutual disdain for terror and separatism, to say the least, which makes our goal very much the same in this field as well, to claim otherwise, you either need to prove Pakistan is not against Separatists and Terrorists, or China is against Islam as a whole rather than the specific people who are using Islam as a tool for separatism and terror.
