Muslims are urged to attack Chinese interests

[gpit]

DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of a group calling itself the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) urged Muslims to attack Chinese interests to punish Beijing for what he described as massacres against Uighur Muslims.

"They (Chinese) must be targeted both at home and abroad. Their embassies, consulates, centres and gathering places should be targeted," Abdul-Haq al-Turkistani said in a video posted on an Islamist website on Saturday.

"Their men should be killed and captured to seek the release of our brothers who are jailed in Eastern Turkistan ... Our duty, we in Eastern Turkistan, is to continue to resist without desperation," said Abdul-Haq, described by an al Qaeda-linked website as the leader of TIP.

Abdul-Haq, whose group has launched violent attacks in the past, accused China of committing "barbaric massacres" against Muslims in Xianjiang, which TIP calls East Turkistan.

Uighurs are a Muslim people native to Xinjiang, in China's far west, and have cultural ties to Central Asia and Turkey.

Uighurs attacked Han Chinese in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, on July 5 after police tried to break up a protest against fatal attacks on Uighur workers at a factory in south China. Han Chinese in Urumqi launched revenge attacks later in the week.

The violence saw 197 people killed and more than 1,600 wounded, mostly Han Chinese. About 1,000 people, mostly Uighurs, have been detained in an ensuing government crackdown.

Exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer said on Wednesday that nearly 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China's northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night.

Abdul-Haq's face was digitally blurred in the Arabic-language version of the video which also contained a collage of footage of the violence in the region.

The militant was speaking with an assault rifle to his right and what appeared to be a pistol pouch strapped to his shoulder.

Beijing does not want to lose its grip on Xinjiang. The vast territory borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has abundant oil reserves and is China's largest natural gas-producing region.

The militant group has claimed violent attacks in the past including bombing two public buses in Shanghai in May 2008.

(Writing by Inal Ersan; editing by Michael Roddy)

Militant urges targeting China over Uighurs | World | STV News

 

[gpit]

Uighur terrorist leader threatens attacks against Chinese interests across the globe - The Long War Journal

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Background on Abdul Haq and links to al Qaeda

Haq, who is also known as Maimaitiming Maimaiti, became the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party in late 2003 after Hassan Mahsum, the group’s previous leader, was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan. Haq was appointed as a member of al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis, or executive leader council, in 2005, according to the US Treasury Department, which designated him as a global terrorist in April 2009. The United Nations also designated Haq as a terrorist leader.

Haq is considered influential enough in al Qaeda's leadership circles that he is dispatched to mediate between rival Taliban groups as well as to represent the Shura Majlis in important military matters. In June, Haq was spotted in Pakistan’s tribal areas attending an important meeting with Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan’s overall Taliban commander. Haq and a senior delegation of Taliban and al Qaeda leaders traveled to Pakistan’s tribal areas to discuss the Pakistani military's operation in South Waziristan. Among those in attendance were Siraj Haqqani, the military commander of the deadly Haqqani Network; and Abu Yahya al Libi, a senior al Qaeda ideologue and propagandist.

The Treasury Department said Haq has sent operatives abroad to raise funds for attacks against Chinese interests both at home and abroad. He also is involved with the planning and execution of terror attacks, recruiting, and propaganda efforts. In early 2008, Haq openly threatened to conduct attacks at the Olympic Games in Beijing.

Haq ran a training camp for his recruits at al Qaeda’s camp in Tora Bora in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar prior to the US invasion in October 2001 [see LWJ report, The Uighurs in their own words]. He later reestablished camps for the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party in Pakistan’s lawless, Taliban-controlled tribal areas. The Chinese government has pressured Pakistan to dismantle the camps.

Read more: Uighur terrorist leader threatens attacks against Chinese interests across the globe - The Long War Journal

Wondering how many Muslims will be hijacked by him... and how much damages he can inflict against the religion...

 

[Developereo]

China hackers crash Aussie film festival website
(AFP) – 2 days ago

SYDNEY — Chinese hackers crashed the website of Australia's biggest film festival, organisers said on Saturday, escalating tensions over a visit here by the exiled leader of the Uighur minority.

Online bookings for the Melbourne International Film Festival had to be shut down after the site was bombarded with phony purchases which resulted in the entire program being sold out, said festival spokeswoman Asha Holmes.

A Chinese citizen living in the United States had alerted organisers to the viral campaign, which originated from a website in China titled "A Call to Action to All Chinese People", said Holmes.

The site explained how to set up a fake profile to buy tickets, and aimed to crash the festival's site in protest against its screening of "Ten Conditions of Love" and its hosting of the documentary's subject, Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.

"It's a very pointed attempt to shut down the system, which has been quite effective," Holmes told AFP.

"We have had to shut down our online site and ask everyone to book at the physical box office or on the phone."

The scam aimed "to protest and sabotage the Melbourne International Film Festival because the festival invited Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uighur leader from Washington DC," the man who first raised the alarm wrote, in an email seen by AFP.

"Really, we imagine that until we withdraw the film (about Kadeer), which we are not going to do, this kind of activity will continue," Holmes said.

China has labelled the US-based Muslim minority leader a "criminal" and accuses her of masterminding the July 5 Xinjiang riots that left at least 197 people dead and 1,600 injured.

Canberra has rebuffed Chinese objections to the visit by Kadeer, saying she is not a "terrorist" and there is no reason to exclude her.

All Chinese language films were withdrawn from the festival in protest, and Hong Kong and Taipei's trade offices both pulled their sponsorship.

China summoned Australia's ambassador to the foreign ministry in Beijing to protest Kadeer's visit, according to state media there.

Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun told Ambassador Geoff Raby that Australia must not allow Kadeer to engage in any anti-Chinese separatist activities during her visit, the official Xinhua news agency reported late Friday.

Australia should "immediately correct its wrongdoings", it said, apparently referring to Canberra's decision to issue a visa to the 62-year-old grandmother and Nobel Peace Prize candidate.

Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved

 

[Patriot]

Well! They could not fight America properly and fighting China means they will get their balls handed to them by PLA.

 

[Developereo]

Not to support terrorism, but the Uighur muslims do have a legitimate cause.

They and their culture are being systematically exterminated by the dominant ethnic Han Chinese.

Xinjiang was 96% Uighus, 4% Han back in 1949 when the PLA annexed it into China.

Now the Han comprise 46% of the population and control the government and industry. The Uighurs fill the lower echelons of society, doing menial work and being treated like animals.

Han Chinese are openly racist towards the Uighurs, commonly referring to them as barbarians.

Xinjiang contains some of China's greatest oil and gas reserves, yet the native Uighurs have received almost no benefit from it. All the wealth has gone to the Han immigrants.

 

[Righteous_Fire]

That Terrorist Uighur has been well funded by our well known enemies the so called "friends of ours" to destroy China , so whenever it comes to China we should all support China and reject everything else, even if it includes some Muslims, because, for more than 60 years, the Chinese have given them all facilities and treated them as 1st class citizens with no distinction what so ever,

The reason why this trouble has started now is obvious, a demon has come to reside just west of us and is looking northwards and eastwards and southwards That demon is only friends of itself and its ilk

 

[luoshan]

Road to heaven? China forced girls to wed soldiers
Michael Sheridian, THE SUNDAY TIMES 3 August 2009, 12:45am IST

The film’s title, ‘8,000 Girls Ascend the Heavenly Mountain’, suggests that Chinese audiences will see a tale of joy when it is aired on

television this autumn.

It dramatises the lives of thousands of girls aged 13 to 19 who went to China’s remote far west in the 1950s to follow soldiers sent to colonise the turbulent Muslim region. In real life it was a trip to purgatory. As shooting for the film unfolds in Beijing under the watchful gaze of party censors, an astonishing story of mass deception, forced marriages and suicides has come to light.

Women have come forward to tell how they were lured to China’s new frontier by false promises of
training and education — only to find themselves locked in barracks and coerced into marrying soldiers.
Chinese journalists have also discovered that Chairman Mao Tse-tung approved the dispatch of 900 prostitutes from the brothels of Shanghai to undergo “thought reform”. Thousands of war widows were also conscripted to go forth and multiply with new husbands from People’s Liberation Army.

It casts new light on the leadership’s determination to occupy and populate the far west, known as Xinjiang, in the early 1950s. Ethnic conflict between Chinese and the Uighur Muslim population has flared ever since. The area recently witnessed its worst riots since an insurrection in 1997. The stoical endurance of hundreds of thousands of Chinese settlers has rarely been described in such bleak terms as in the accounts of the 8,000 women from Hunan province collected by Lu Yiping, an author.

He spent five years tracing the survivors of that naive pilgrimage. “There were 200,000 soldiers in Xinjiang and only a handful had wives. So from 1949 to 1954 the military authorities, hushing up their real motive, recruited 40,000 women from all over China,” he said. The girls were sent to barracks scattered across the region. One group of 20 girls, who found themselves with a regiment of 1,000 men, hastily married 20 most senior officers within days of their arrival. Xiao Yequn, 15 at the time, refused to marry a 26- year-old commissar.

“When I found out he was nine years older than me I was unwilling to be his wife,” she recalled. “He immediately took out his pistol and put a bullet in the chamber. I dared not resist and the next year we got married.” Xiao’s story is among several published by the state media this year as the nation prepares to celebrate 60 years since “liberation” on October 1, 1949.

 

[bigmoneymaker]

Not to support terrorism, but the Uighur muslims do have a legitimate cause.

They and their culture are being systematically exterminated by the dominant ethnic Han Chinese.

Xinjiang was 96% Uighus, 4% Han back in 1949 when the PLA annexed it into China.

Now the Han comprise 46% of the population and control the government and industry. The Uighurs fill the lower echelons of society, doing menial work and being treated like animals.

Han Chinese are openly racist towards the Uighurs, commonly referring to them as barbarians.

Xinjiang contains some of China's greatest oil and gas reserves, yet the native Uighurs have received almost no benefit from it. All the wealth has gone to the Han immigrants.

well, from what i know, the chinese central government has given much premium and priority to all the minority ethnics including uighurs more than han chinese. they have higher chance of getting into universities compared to same level han chinese and all kind of subsidies to help improving living standard. i think it is the remnants of nomadic culture that hindered their competitiveness with han, since the han are more well versed in economic activities due to thousands years of economic entity building experience within a given fixed local settling regional development. uighurs are not compelled by the local autonomous authority to learn the mandarin(in the name of selection freedom), that is the reason why the uighurs cannot understand how much advantages they have got, and they keep bashing han, now the riot is just a trick played by national endorsement for democracy (ned)of usa to trigger hatred of whole muslims world towards rising china, if incoming han chinese cannot get along with local uighurs, then an unprecedented chaos shold have happened already before the incursion of western colonial influence and especially the formation of usa, then the population of uighurs should be rendered to nothing today or han chinese be driven away in cold weapon age by physically strong uighurs, all i can say that is you may check the population of victims of genocide by turkic empire and make comparation and conclusions according to the facts and reality now exist, if you do not want to be confused by both western and chinese own point of view on the matter in history. prevailing universal western'''history''' is much doubted since they always twist the truth to meet their kind of understanding on other civilization and political requirement to pressurize and demonise opponents, since they firmly grabbed the speaking and definition rights started from their world exploration and colonizing era, everything happened all around the globe will be filtered and redefined by them to become powerful public opinion weapon to pierce into internal affairs of lesser countries with weaker influential speaking rights to maximize their interest in that region. china and all the developing countries nowadays were once the victim of the white colonism, why still do not recognise the intentious criticism wars and tricks played by the white to dominate the world??? it is hard to get back our own rightful possession of proper speaking and definition rights...the definition and recognition on world secular matters is by the entire mankind including all races , not only by a bunch of white elites!!!

 

[daiyu]

Take your own way,Let the world talk.
expect the Great renaissance of China.

 

[Awesome]

Has this nut considered that China has been very friendly to Muslims countries?

Apart from its obvious alliance to Pakistan, its aligned to Iran, Bangladesh, Saudi, and several African countries.

 

[Developereo]

Has this nut considered that China has been very friendly to Muslims countries?

Apart from its obvious alliance to Pakistan, its aligned to Iran, Bangladesh, Saudi, and several African countries.

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Has this nut considered that China has been very friendly to Muslims countries?

Apart from its obvious alliance to Pakistan, its aligned to Iran, Bangladesh, Saudi, and several African countries.

His people and culture are being exterminated by China.

 

[Awesome]

His people and culture are being exterminated by China.

Whether or not that is true, is China's internal issue. Why drag all the Muslim world into it?

 

[Righteous_Fire]

^ Yes, and China has been good to them all these years so why the change now? because the problem isnt China its those who the west manipulates for their own dirty and vile ends

 

[Developereo]

^ Yes, and China has been good to them all these years so why the change now? because the problem isnt China its those who the west manipulates for their own dirty and vile ends

China has NOT been good to them all these years.

The Uighur culture has been slowly exterminated since 1949. Their population went from being 96% of Xinjiang population to less than 45% today. Uighur youth, including young unmarried women, are forced -- literally FORCED -- to leave their homes and go work thousands of miles away in factories on the east coast. Their farms in Xinjiang are being taken over, their homes destroyed and they are not allowed to practise Islam. These are not terrorists. They are simple peasants who practise a very moderate form of Islam -- influenced by Sufism, Buddhism and earlier traditions.

Almost all the oil and gas wealth of Xinjiang has gone to immigrant Han population, while the indigenous Uighurs continue to live in poverty. The central Chinese government has some token programs to supposedly improve Uighur life, but there is so much racism amongst Han Chinese towards the Uighurs that they are effectively
trapped in the lowest social circles.

I like China's friendship with the muslim world, but China is doing it not because they like muslims but for it's own self interests. There is nothing wrong with that. Everybody works for their own self-interest and it is good that Chinese interests coincide with muslim interests so often.

I know many muslims want to ignore the Uighur situation because it is inconvenient to talk about it, but in this case China is doing the wrong thing. The Chinese government is so heavy handed they won't even let an old Uighur woman, Rabiya Kadeer, show a movie of her life and give a talk in Australia. Why is the Chinese government so afraid to let an old woman talk?

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

China has NOT been good to them all these years.

The Uighur culture has been slowly exterminated since 1949. Their population went from being 96% of Xinjiang population to less than 45% today. Uighur youth, including young unmarried women, are forced -- literally FORCED -- to leave their homes and go work thousands of miles away in factories on the east coast. Their farms in Xinjiang are being taken over, their homes destroyed and they are not allowed to practise Islam. These are not terrorists. They are simple peasants who practise a very moderate form of Islam -- influenced by Sufism, Buddhism and earlier traditions.

Almost all the oil and gas wealth of Xinjiang has gone to immigrant Han population, while the indigenous Uighurs continue to live in poverty. The central Chinese government has some token programs to supposedly improve Uighur life, but there is so much racism amongst Han Chinese towards the Uighurs that they are effectively
trapped in the lowest social circles.

I like China's friendship with the muslim world, but China is doing it not because they like muslims but for it's own self interests. There is nothing wrong with that. Everybody works for their own self-interest and it is good that Chinese interests coincide with muslim interests so often.

I know many muslims want to ignore the Uighur situation because it is inconvenient to talk about it, but in this case China is doing the wrong thing. The Chinese government is so heavy handed they won't even let an old Uighur woman, Rabiya Kadeer, show a movie of her life and give a talk in Australia. Why is the Chinese government so afraid to let an old woman talk?

Full text of letter to Rebiya Kadeer by her family members


Following is the full text of a letter to Rebiya Kadeer, written by her children living in China and signed by some of her relatives on July 24. The letter was originally written in Uygur language.

Dear mother,

This letter is written by your son Khahar and daughter Roxingul, together with your younger brother Memet Kadeer.

You once were the richest person in Xinjiang just because you were granted a lot of business opportunities and convenience by the Communist Party of China and the Government. But, despite repeated leniency of the Party and the Government, you ended up in prison under other people's enticement. You were allowed to go to the United States thanks to, once again, our government's leniency. You pledged to our government not to participate in any separatist activity before you departed for the United States. You broke your words anyway.

Mother! We all long for a stable life. In Xinjiang, which is like a big family to people of different ethnic groups, none of us has ever experienced a violent incident as cruel as what happened on July 5 (in Urumqi). Because of you, so many innocent people lost their lives in Urumqi on July 5, and so many houses, shops and vehicles were burnt or damaged. The harmony and unity among ethnic groups were undermined. Why does this happen?

Xinjiang is a happy home to the people of various ethnic groups. It is impossible for anyone to simply destroy it, nor will the people forgive anyone who damages their homes. Mother, despite so many things you have done, the Government treats us very nicely. We are often told, "Your mother is responsible for things she did. It has nothing to do with you."

Because you went to the United States immediately after you were released on parole, you have no idea how much Xinjiang has changed. People are living a good life here. There are no difference between ethnic groups so long as you're willing to work hard. There are many Uygur millionaires and countless new buildings in Urumqi, and Uygur people enjoy various preferential policies from the government. Isn't this the result of good policy of the Government?

No one wants this happy home destroyed. Please think about the happiness of us and your grandchildren. Don't destroy the stable and happy life in Xinjiang. Don't follow the provocation from some people in other countries. We still miss the mother who cared about us before going to jail. The last thing we want is that our mother is condemned by the people of all ethnic groups.

Khahar (son of Rebiya Kadeer)

Memet (younger brother of Rebiya Kadeer)

Roxingul (daughter of Rebiya Kadeer)

Kheser Hapiz (son-in-law of Rebiya Kadeer)

Kadilya Kheser (granddaughter of Rebiya Kadeer)

Rizya Kadeer (adopted daughter of Rebiya Kadeer's daughter)

Zukhila Kadeer (older sister of Rebiya Kadeer)

Aydida Khahar (granddaughter of Rebiya Kadeer)

Aygul (daughter-in-law of Rebiya Kadeer)

Dildar Khahar (granddaughter of Rebiya Kadeer)

Zulpkhar (grandson of Rebiya Kadeer)

Sarda (grandson of Rebiya Kadeer)

(Xinhua News Agency August 3, 2009)