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Ugly truth behind this restriction, even among full scale war, reporters allowed to work
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Militants kill pro-Beijing imam of biggest mosque in Xinjiang
BEIJING: Three suspected militants armed with knives and axes killed the imam of China’s biggest mosque in the western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday, the authorities said, days after a knife-wielding gang attacked state buildings in the same region.
All three attackers, who were named by the government, had ethnic Uighur names and the imam, Juma Tayir, was a well-known pro-government Uighur who led prayers at the Id Kah Mosque in the old Silk Road city of Kashgar.
Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, who speak a Turkic language, has for years been beset by violence, which the government blames on militants who it says want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan.
The men attacked Tayir after morning prayers, the Xinjiang government said on its official news website on Thursday. Two of the attackers were later shot dead by police while the third was arrested, it said.
The three “were influenced by religious extremist thinking and plotted to raise their profile by ‘doing something big’”, the government said.
Xinjiang has seen a surge in violence over the last year, with hundreds killed, including some police, according to state media.
Tensions among the Uighur are running high after officials in Xinjiang told Muslims to ignore religious customs during the holy month of Ramazan, which rights groups say is an attempt to repress the Uighur minority.
Tayir was a controversial figure among Uighurs. In 2009, he backed the government after it quashed deadly riots in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in which nearly 200 people were killed.
Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, said Tayir was known locally for cooperating with the government and helping them monitor religious activities of the Uighurs.
“Local Uighurs suspected that he had a special relationship with China’s Ministry of Public Security,” he said in emailed comments to Reuters.
The killing in Kashgar comes after a series of attacks in Xinjiang over the past year. State media reported on Wednesday that a gang armed with knives had attacked a police station and government offices on Monday in the town of Elixku, in Shache county.
The government said dozens of knife-wielding attackers were shot dead in Shache but has yet to give a full account of what happened in the county, which lies 200 kilometres from Kashgar. Police appeared to be on high alert on Wednesday, pouring into Kashgar and closing off roads.
Meanwhile, China indicted prominent Uighur professor Ilham Tohti, who has championed the rights of his community, on separatism charges.
Xinjiang has rich coal, oil and gas reserves and is strategically located on the borders of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
BEIJING: Three suspected militants armed with knives and axes killed the imam of China’s biggest mosque in the western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday, the authorities said, days after a knife-wielding gang attacked state buildings in the same region.
All three attackers, who were named by the government, had ethnic Uighur names and the imam, Juma Tayir, was a well-known pro-government Uighur who led prayers at the Id Kah Mosque in the old Silk Road city of Kashgar.
Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, who speak a Turkic language, has for years been beset by violence, which the government blames on militants who it says want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan.
The men attacked Tayir after morning prayers, the Xinjiang government said on its official news website on Thursday. Two of the attackers were later shot dead by police while the third was arrested, it said.
The three “were influenced by religious extremist thinking and plotted to raise their profile by ‘doing something big’”, the government said.
Xinjiang has seen a surge in violence over the last year, with hundreds killed, including some police, according to state media.
Tensions among the Uighur are running high after officials in Xinjiang told Muslims to ignore religious customs during the holy month of Ramazan, which rights groups say is an attempt to repress the Uighur minority.
Tayir was a controversial figure among Uighurs. In 2009, he backed the government after it quashed deadly riots in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in which nearly 200 people were killed.
Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, said Tayir was known locally for cooperating with the government and helping them monitor religious activities of the Uighurs.
“Local Uighurs suspected that he had a special relationship with China’s Ministry of Public Security,” he said in emailed comments to Reuters.
The killing in Kashgar comes after a series of attacks in Xinjiang over the past year. State media reported on Wednesday that a gang armed with knives had attacked a police station and government offices on Monday in the town of Elixku, in Shache county.
The government said dozens of knife-wielding attackers were shot dead in Shache but has yet to give a full account of what happened in the county, which lies 200 kilometres from Kashgar. Police appeared to be on high alert on Wednesday, pouring into Kashgar and closing off roads.
Meanwhile, China indicted prominent Uighur professor Ilham Tohti, who has championed the rights of his community, on separatism charges.
Xinjiang has rich coal, oil and gas reserves and is strategically located on the borders of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
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What sad? you mean they kill non-muslim Chinese is ok, but this muslim guy is sad?
if this is sad, how do you call what happend in Syria, Iraq or Lybia, even in your country, those are all your muslim brothers who kill each other.
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death and destruction that is how Islam and Muslims are portrayed nowadays.
you got AK and swords on your flags
you are the most fanatical about religion and are willing to kill over it.
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BEIJING: The head of China’s largest mosque was murdered after conducting morning prayers, the local government in far western Xinjiang said Thursday, amid intensifying violence in the turbulent region.
Jume Tahir, the government-appointed imam of the 600-year-old Id Kah mosque in the city of Kashgar, was killed Wednesday by “three thugs influenced by religious extremist ideology”, the Xinjiang government web portal Tianshan said.
Police launched an all-out investigation and shot dead two of the alleged assailants while capturing the other at about noon on Wednesday as they violently resisted with “knives and hatchets,” Tianshan said.
Tianshan said Tahir’s killing was “premeditated” and that the suspects intended to commit a “ruthless murder”.
It also said they wanted to “increase their influence through ‘doing something big’”.
Tianshan identified the suspects by their names in phonetic Chinese. The official Xinhua news agency in an English-language report gave their names as Turghun Tursun, Memetjan Remutillan and Nurmemet Abidilimit.
Neither Tianshan nor Xinhua initially identified who among them was shot dead and who was apprehended.
Tahir was found dead in a pool of blood outside the mosque’s prayer house, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported earlier on its website.
Xinjiang, home to China’s mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, has seen escalating violence which in the past year has spilled over into other parts of China.
RFA cited what it described as “witnesses and other officials”, including the director of a neighbourhood stability committee in Kashgar, who described the killing as an assassination.
Imams and other religious leaders in China are appointed by the government and subject to strict control on the content of their preaching.
US-based RFA said that Tahir had been critical of violence carried out by Uighurs, and China’s official Xinhua news agency in early July quoted him as condemning terrorist violence carried out in the name of ethnicity and religion.
Tahir, 74, “enjoyed a high reputation among Muslims nationwide”, Xinhua said in its dispatch Thursday.
Dilxat Raxit, spokesperson for the exiled World Uyghur Congress (WUC), did not condemn the killing.
“Chinese policies in the area have caused things to happen which should not happen,” he told AFP in an email.
“According to local Uighurs, Jume Tahir consistently cooperated with the government, aided the monitoring of religious activities, and used his position in the mosque to promote Chinese policies which are unacceptable to Uighurs,” he said.
“Local Uighurs suspected he had a special relationship with the Chinese ministry of security.”
The Id Kah mosque is said to have a capacity of up to 20,000 people.
Kashgar, where the mosque is located, is an old oasis city that was part of the Silk Road trade route that ran from Europe to Asia.
The killing of Tahir came two days after dozens of people died in violence between Uighurs and security authorities in the Kashgar region.
Nearly 100 people were left dead or wounded, the WUC said, while authorities put the toll in the “several tens” in what they called a “terror attack” on a police station and township in Shache county, known as Yarkand in the Uighur language.
Beijing commonly blames separatists from Xinjiang for carrying out terror attacks which have grown in scale over the past year and spread outside the restive and resource-rich region.
A market attack in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital city, in May left 39 people dead, while a deadly rampage by knife-wielding assailants at a train station in Kunming in China’s southwest in March killed 29 people.
They came after a fiery vehicle crash at Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s symbolic heart, in October last year.
The violence has led China to carry out a broad crackdown on terrorism. President Xi Jinping on a visit to Xinjiang in late April called for a “strike first” strategy to fight terrorism and said the Kashgar area is China’s “front line in anti-terrorist efforts”.
Chinese prosecutors on Wednesday brought charges of separatism — which can carry the death penalty — against prominent Uighur academic Ilham Tohti, detained earlier this year.
Rights groups and analysts accuse China’s government of cultural and religious repression which they say fuels unrest in Xinjiang, which borders Central Asia.
The government, however, argues it has boosted economic development in the area and that it upholds minority rights in a country with 56 recognised ethnic groups.
Imam of China’s biggest mosque killed in Xinjiang – The Express Tribune
Jume Tahir, the government-appointed imam of the 600-year-old Id Kah mosque in the city of Kashgar, was killed Wednesday by “three thugs influenced by religious extremist ideology”, the Xinjiang government web portal Tianshan said.
Police launched an all-out investigation and shot dead two of the alleged assailants while capturing the other at about noon on Wednesday as they violently resisted with “knives and hatchets,” Tianshan said.
Tianshan said Tahir’s killing was “premeditated” and that the suspects intended to commit a “ruthless murder”.
It also said they wanted to “increase their influence through ‘doing something big’”.
Tianshan identified the suspects by their names in phonetic Chinese. The official Xinhua news agency in an English-language report gave their names as Turghun Tursun, Memetjan Remutillan and Nurmemet Abidilimit.
Neither Tianshan nor Xinhua initially identified who among them was shot dead and who was apprehended.
Tahir was found dead in a pool of blood outside the mosque’s prayer house, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported earlier on its website.
Xinjiang, home to China’s mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, has seen escalating violence which in the past year has spilled over into other parts of China.
RFA cited what it described as “witnesses and other officials”, including the director of a neighbourhood stability committee in Kashgar, who described the killing as an assassination.
Imams and other religious leaders in China are appointed by the government and subject to strict control on the content of their preaching.
US-based RFA said that Tahir had been critical of violence carried out by Uighurs, and China’s official Xinhua news agency in early July quoted him as condemning terrorist violence carried out in the name of ethnicity and religion.
Tahir, 74, “enjoyed a high reputation among Muslims nationwide”, Xinhua said in its dispatch Thursday.
Dilxat Raxit, spokesperson for the exiled World Uyghur Congress (WUC), did not condemn the killing.
“Chinese policies in the area have caused things to happen which should not happen,” he told AFP in an email.
“According to local Uighurs, Jume Tahir consistently cooperated with the government, aided the monitoring of religious activities, and used his position in the mosque to promote Chinese policies which are unacceptable to Uighurs,” he said.
“Local Uighurs suspected he had a special relationship with the Chinese ministry of security.”
The Id Kah mosque is said to have a capacity of up to 20,000 people.
Kashgar, where the mosque is located, is an old oasis city that was part of the Silk Road trade route that ran from Europe to Asia.
The killing of Tahir came two days after dozens of people died in violence between Uighurs and security authorities in the Kashgar region.
Nearly 100 people were left dead or wounded, the WUC said, while authorities put the toll in the “several tens” in what they called a “terror attack” on a police station and township in Shache county, known as Yarkand in the Uighur language.
Beijing commonly blames separatists from Xinjiang for carrying out terror attacks which have grown in scale over the past year and spread outside the restive and resource-rich region.
A market attack in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital city, in May left 39 people dead, while a deadly rampage by knife-wielding assailants at a train station in Kunming in China’s southwest in March killed 29 people.
They came after a fiery vehicle crash at Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s symbolic heart, in October last year.
The violence has led China to carry out a broad crackdown on terrorism. President Xi Jinping on a visit to Xinjiang in late April called for a “strike first” strategy to fight terrorism and said the Kashgar area is China’s “front line in anti-terrorist efforts”.
Chinese prosecutors on Wednesday brought charges of separatism — which can carry the death penalty — against prominent Uighur academic Ilham Tohti, detained earlier this year.
Rights groups and analysts accuse China’s government of cultural and religious repression which they say fuels unrest in Xinjiang, which borders Central Asia.
The government, however, argues it has boosted economic development in the area and that it upholds minority rights in a country with 56 recognised ethnic groups.
Imam of China’s biggest mosque killed in Xinjiang – The Express Tribune
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Why me out of all people? I'm confused, what exactly happened here?
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Extremists have eyes only for the killing, there is no peace in their eyes, they always assassinated opposition pacifist violence.
Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar is full of Xinjiang, and the whole of China's largest mosque, Imam Jume Tahir Maulana, have religion knowledgeable, and humble, honest, In Kashgar, all Xinjiang region have enjoyed a high reputation. After the 2009 Urumqi riots, he denounced those who killed innocent riot, contrary to the teachings of Islam, has since become a thorn by extremists.
in Turpan, last year there is another Maulana were killed.
Because he was againstextremism,against violence, hope all ethnic groupslive in harmony,
So, in theextremists,and theWestern countriesit seems, he isheterogeneous,Controversial person
Therefore, theextremists killed him,while the Western mediaas Sophistry terrorists
Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar is full of Xinjiang, and the whole of China's largest mosque, Imam Jume Tahir Maulana, have religion knowledgeable, and humble, honest, In Kashgar, all Xinjiang region have enjoyed a high reputation. After the 2009 Urumqi riots, he denounced those who killed innocent riot, contrary to the teachings of Islam, has since become a thorn by extremists.
in Turpan, last year there is another Maulana were killed.
Because he was againstextremism,against violence, hope all ethnic groupslive in harmony,
So, in theextremists,and theWestern countriesit seems, he isheterogeneous,Controversial person
Therefore, theextremists killed him,while the Western mediaas Sophistry terrorists
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你吃火药了？喷啥呢喷？谁那样说了？这个论坛没人这么说，再说层主是个很不错的巴基斯坦人。你返目请到国内，别总乱喷。你看看纳个鈤苯仁，wei装的多好，多会套好人，别学在国内论乱喷粪。你要不能给郭嘉找朋友，就请不要乱啦敌人
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Because he was against extremism,against violence, hope all ethnic groupslive in harmony,
So, in theextremists,and the Western countriesit seems, he isheterogeneous,Controversial person
Therefore, the extremists killed him,while the Western mediaas Sophistry terrorists
So, in theextremists,and the Western countriesit seems, he isheterogeneous,Controversial person
Therefore, the extremists killed him,while the Western mediaas Sophistry terrorists
那个跪子看得人想吐，要在我面前走似那个龟儿子
I have read some materials saying that these terrorists actually do not read Quran Koran by themselves.
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This is a defence forum. No matter what Pakistanis here will say, most of them are nationalist first. So they'll keep quiet about Ramadan fast banning, etc. in China. But as soon as something like that happens in India, the ultra Muslim comes out when it's to their advantage.
Other corners of Pakistanis are most definitely not liking fast banning, etc.
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