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Ramadan Reflections from Xinjiang
Published Yesterday | Headlines 2011-08-14 11:12:54 By: Farwin Fousdeen Islamonline.net-Doha :::The alarm rings at this unconventional hour, while a solitary moon and a sprinkling of stars adorn the skies above. Hurriedly, lights around the house are switched on, dispelling the darkness. Soon there is a scurry of activities - Ibadees (worshipers) reach for prayer rugs and Qurans, tune into audios of Quran recitation and enjoy a light meal. As idyllic as this sounds, this is the pre-dawn meal (suhoor) that characterizes the month of Ramadan. Suhoor, Muslims know and believe is one of the most blessed times in Islam’s holiest month. A month which is often welcomed with spirited enthusiasm, Ramadan lanterns, fireworks and nasheeds (songs). With the call for the dawn prayer men and boys head to the nearest mosque, anticipating the companionship that a mosque fosters, and yearning for the divine rewards that congregational prayer brings. The day is spent in prayer, supplications, charitable activities, and in recitation of the Glorious Quran, after all this is ‘the month of the Quran’, the month in which the Quran was revealed. The call (adhan) to the evening prayer is welcomed whole heartedly, since it signifies the end of the fasting day. It’s a joyous occasion. Family, friends and neighbors, gather together to break the fast and relish a traditional Ramadan meal they can afford, amidst duas (prayers of supplication) and the comfort that overt displays of harmony brings. Muslims hastening down streets with casseroles and containers, earnestly laboring to lay them down before the commencement of adhan is not an uncommon sight, even in Muslim minority regions. Soon, it’s time for the night prayer – a prayer that is predominantly visible during the month of Ramadan. Many frequent mosques for this special prayer, that at times, lasts deep into the night. Simplistic acts. Profound significance. It lends cohesiveness to a culture. It establishes an identity.

 

[VictoryAndHonour]

It was Han victims

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I tell you to take your source, and then you avoid it?

A Turk worker said them in a mail(working in the china) (please translate it if some1 know Turkish.) :

Ağabey burada internet pek güvenli değil, sonra anlatırım… Bizim memlekette China Mobile’i kapattılar, internet ve elektriği kestiler.
Şuan ordu bastırıyor, Allah büyüktür… Kanton taraflarında bizim kebabçıları ve meyvecileri öldürüyorlar.

 

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In Xinjiang….. No Ramadan lanterns. No fireworks. No nasheeds welcoming Ramadan. Not even, the sound of the more demure sound of Quran recitation envelops the air around. For the Muslims in Chinese controlled Uyghur region, Ramadan this year began with fireworks of a different kind. Violence in Hotan in mid-July and Kashgar city on the eve of Ramadan left many dead, and many others injured. The violence also heralded one recurrence - threats by the government to ‘clampdown’ on ‘religious extremists’ and Communist party instructions to “local officials to rely on the public to help curb illegal religious activities.” Fasting, in the month of Ramadan is an illegal religious activity by definition in the Xinjiang Autonomous Uyghur Region (XUAR). State officials in XUAR are under strict orders to "try to reduce Ramadan's influence on society as much as possible". The means to this end is in the form of a prohibition on “government officials, Communist Party members, teachers and students from observing Ramadan” and instructions to local government authorities to step up “propaganda (against Ramadan) and inspections”. Inherently illegal and persecutory in essence, this regulation is enforced with a vengeance. All divinely mandated rituals associated with Ramadan are disallowed by force. Suhoor which signifies the beginning of the fasting day is marred by lurking agents attempting “to ferret out which government officials are observing the practice by seeing which homes have lights on in the very early morning hours, when families are preparing their morning meal before fasting begins at dawn.” Congregational prayers in mosques are notably contentious during Ramadan. County government websites are filled with dictates calling for “stronger security at mosques” in a region which does not allow children under the age of 18 to enter mosques – Ramadan or not - or to receive any sort of religious education. (“Many young Uyghurs are afraid that if they do enter a mosque, or are found to be praying at home, they will be expelled from school”). Officials are instructed to "dissuade people from attending organized and planned worship in large groups and women going into mosques with veils”. One report chronicles that, “as men recite the Quran inside a small neighborhood mosque, a man outside says that he cannot participate, because he works for the government. His job is to note down the names of those who attend the prayer sessions”. The degree of invasiveness into the lives of people becomes even more visible with the Chinese government’s meal policies in Ramadan. “During the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, the authorities force Muslim schoolchildren to have lunch. State employees are under similar pressure.” Those who conform, conform to ‘hide’ their faith. “State units organize lunches for government employees, and in some areas, universities provide free lunches for students, hoping to encourage them to break the fast.” Restaurants are forced to remain open during the daylight fasting hours. Muslim-run restaurants are “pushed into signing pledges to remain open during the fasting period, as is the custom in other Islamic regions of the world.” One municipal website reports that “officials in Atush city, in the far west of the remote Tarim Basin were dispatched to count all the restaurants run by Muslims and to “educate” their owners into signing the agreement of their own accord.”

 

[huzihaidao12]

A Turk worker said them in a mail(working in the china) (please translate it if some1 know Turkish.) :

Ha ha ha ha, a Turk can even closer to the Chinese police in a torture chamber? You serious? This is your source? This is "said" it is the least reliable basis.

 

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In conclusion… To fully empathize with the sufferings of the Uyghur Muslims in Ramadan and the feelings that a denied Ramadan evokes, we must appreciate our own. This article about a nation, which is not ‘allowed’ to observe Ramadan was first conceived as a part of “Islam Online”’s ongoing “Ramadan Reflections from Around the World” series. Writers for this series were required to be both citizens of, and resident in, the country in focus. In the hope of finding a writer from the region “Islam Online” contacted the Uyghur American Association which advocates an independent East- Turkestan. In response President of the UAA, Alim Seytoff said, “it is usually impossible to find a writer in East Turkestan who could possibly write on the religious persecution of Uyghur Muslims, especially during Ramadan. The Chinese authorities severely punish foreign reporters and even those Uyghur Muslims who talk to them.” Sources for this article include; AP, Amnesty International, Forum 18 News, Radio Free Asia, The Guardian, The National and The Earth Times.

 

[huzihaidao12]

A Turk worker said them in a mail(working in the china) (please translate it if some1 know Turkish.) :

You are not Turks?

 

[VictoryAndHonour]

Ha ha ha ha, a Turk can even closer to the Chinese police in a torture chamber? You serious? This is your source? This is "said" it is the least reliable basis.

What are you talking about silly idiot.I didnt say something like that !

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You are not Turks?

IM TURK but i dont know english n00b !

 

[huzihaidao12]

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In conclusion… To fully empathize with the sufferings of the Uyghur Muslims in Ramadan and the feelings that a denied Ramadan evokes, we must appreciate our own. This article about a nation, which is not ‘allowed’ to observe Ramadan was first conceived as a part of “Islam Online”’s ongoing “Ramadan Reflections from Around the World” series. Writers for this series were required to be both citizens of, and resident in, the country in focus. In the hope of finding a writer from the region “Islam Online” contacted the Uyghur American Association which advocates an independent East- Turkestan. In response President of the UAA, Alim Seytoff said, “it is usually impossible to find a writer in East Turkestan who could possibly write on the religious persecution of Uyghur Muslims, especially during Ramadan. The Chinese authorities severely punish foreign reporters and even those Uyghur Muslims who talk to them.” Sources for this article include; AP, Amnesty International, Forum 18 News, Radio Free Asia, The Guardian, The National and The Earth Times.

Do you really believe these false messages? And you give two different messages.

 

[huzihaidao12]

What are you talking about silly idiot.I didnt say something like that !

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IM TURK but i dont know english n00b !

You tell me why a Turk (in China) can know it? If it is true, that is a secret, a Turk, just working in China, he can know it?

 

[VictoryAndHonour]

Do you really believe these false messages? And you give two different messages.

False ? Okai man go away from this topic dont bull no longer please dont ! ! !

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You tell me why a Turk (in China) can know it? If it is true, that is a secret, a Turk, just working in China, he can know it?

He is there he have a house in there.Someone will translate it please wait.

 

[huzihaidao12]

What are you talking about silly idiot.I didnt say something like that !

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IM TURK but i dont know english n00b !

You do not know English, you serious?

 

[huzihaidao12]

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In conclusion… To fully empathize with the sufferings of the Uyghur Muslims in Ramadan and the feelings that a denied Ramadan evokes, we must appreciate our own. This article about a nation, which is not ‘allowed’ to observe Ramadan was first conceived as a part of “Islam Online”’s ongoing “Ramadan Reflections from Around the World” series. Writers for this series were required to be both citizens of, and resident in, the country in focus. In the hope of finding a writer from the region “Islam Online” contacted the Uyghur American Association which advocates an independent East- Turkestan. In response President of the UAA, Alim Seytoff said, “it is usually impossible to find a writer in East Turkestan who could possibly write on the religious persecution of Uyghur Muslims, especially during Ramadan. The Chinese authorities severely punish foreign reporters and even those Uyghur Muslims who talk to them.” Sources for this article include; AP, Amnesty International, Forum 18 News, Radio Free Asia, The Guardian, The National and The Earth Times.

It is enough to say.

 

[huzihaidao12]

False ? Okai man go away from this topic dont bull no longer please dont ! ! !

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He is there he have a house in there.Someone will translate it please wait.

The house must be very vigorous, no problem, I would be willing to waste some time.

 

[silko]

okay guys, can we just end it. this thread is going towhere, and it is annoying to watch the same comments again and again!

 

[VictoryAndHonour]

You do not know English, you serious?

I dont know.Just im trying.