Xinjiang Province: News & Discussions

[haidian]

 

[haidian]

Prosperous, peaceful, wealthy and healthy... the results justified all means.

 

[prashantazazel]

A serious problem with hijab is that it is generally enforced or coerced by the male members of the family, upon the girl.
It is rarely free choice, if you're taught from birth that wearing religious gear is the righteous way.

 

[帅的一匹]

i dont like two kinds of.people:
1. extreme anti religious
2. religious extremist
these kind of people will ruin this country and.break.its unity.

A serious problem with hijab is that it is generally enforced or coerced by the male members of the family, upon the girl.
It is rarely free choice, if you're taught from birth that wearing religious gear is the righteous way.

its how Muslim live their life

 

[haidian]

Spectacular scenic view of Rape Seed Garden in Xinjiang

 

[khansaheeb]

Indians will be excited to see rape seed garden no doubt.

 

[Sinnerman108]

Spectacular scenic view of Rape Seed Garden in Xinjiang

What is the story behind that name ?

 

[haidian]

What is the story behind that name ?

Rape is a kind of vegetable...

 

[Raphael]

I love the smell of rapeseed in the morning

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

i dont like two kinds of.people:
1. extreme anti religious
2. religious extremist
these kind of people will ruin this country and.break.its unity.


its how Muslim live their life

I told u, im 101% sure singapore is way more secular and liberal than china in many ways, including affairs on religion. Even then:

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/allowing-hijab-problematic-some-jobs-yaacob

While everyone has the right to practise his or her respective faiths, Dr Yaacob said this also entails a responsibility to promote mutual respect and understanding among different religious groups and to preserve the common space that all groups share.


=Everyone is equal. Distinigushing oneself from the rest of the populace is not

 

[TaiShang]

Peaceful and serene Xinjiang is no terror haven

By Liu Sai Source:Global Times Published: 2018/10/29

Illustration: Liu Rui/GT

Some Western politicians and media outlets have recently been attacking anti-terrorism measures and moves to maintain stability by the
Xinjiang Province. For political reasons, anti-China forces smeared the steps against extremism in the northwestern region. But the fact is that the situation in Xinjiang is stable. The region is developing steadily and there is amity among all ethnic groups. People in Xinjiang cherish the hard-won prosperous life, repudiating any attempts at slandering the efforts to stabilize the region.

Terror attacks used to be frequent in Xinjiang with extremism rife in the region. There were reports with different versions about the same incident, and some anti-China forces distorted the truth with the intent to spread misinformation.

The Chinese government and people have taken a tough stance against terrorism and extremism for years. Officials and people in Xinjiang paid a high price.

After years of trying to obliterate the scourge of terrorism, Xinjiang stabilized. The people there live peacefully and make a good living. There are no more reports of terrorist attacks and tranquility has returned to the lives of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang.

Xinjiang's stability not only benefits the ethnic groups in the region but also attracts visitors from around the world. A few years ago in the wake of terror attacks, Xinjiang's morning fairs, night fairs and squares were closed for people's safety. Now they have reopened.

In the morning, senior citizens can be seen in busy streets again; people dance in the squares in the afternoon, and the lively night fairs make people stay for a long time. Such scenes disappoint those who don't want to see peace return to the region.

The famous Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar in the capital Urumqi now receives more than 30,000 domestic and foreign visitors every day during the peak tourism season. The number of tourists has gone through the roof in recent years with Xinjiang becoming a favorite draw of domestic and foreign visitors. The region saw an increase of 32.4 percent in the number of tourists in 2017, receiving a total of 107 million tourists. Tourists spent over 182 billion yuan ($26 billion) in the region, 30 percent more than in 2016. It is expected the number of tourists in Xinjiang will reach 130 million by the end of 2018.

Syria's population is similar to that of Xinjiang. Because of the lasting war, millions of Syrian people have been displaced and are forced to seek asylum in other countries. Most foreigners who go to Syria today are soldiers, not visitors, bringing them gunshots rather than helping them strive for a better livelihood. Xinjiang doesn't need foreign soldiers. Chinese people have the strength and confidence to win the war on terrorism and maintain stability.

Xinjiang's stability is in the interest of the ethnic groups in the region and the country, and it is also the will of all peace-loving people in the world. The Chinese government, officials and people in Xinjiang have contributed to progress in the region with their hard work.

It's believed all countries have the same attitude toward terrorism and extremism. China has paid the price in eradicating the scourge and worked out the anti-terrorism and de-extremism approach with Chinese wisdom. Western media, which revels in double standards, tends to distort the truth about Xinjiang. But such intentions are defeated by the reality in the region.

Xinjiang's long-lasting stability is the best counterattack against distortion, and the region's prosperity will eventually quell all rumors. All of China's ethnic groups will unite to prevent terror attacks and promote well-being of locals.

We believe that Xinjiang's future will be more promising.

The author is an assistant research fellow of the Institute of Central Asia Studies, Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1124979.shtml


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China is learning to not to be apologetic to religious extremists of all sorts. Foreign ideologies unwelcome. They will be rooted-out and/or transformed.

Xinjiang is not more or less special just because of this or that: It is just a region that needs development along with several others in the Western parts of China.

China does not accept instruction from others on its own internal matters. No one is entitled to lecture China, ask China give access to its internal affairs or provide concessions on the basis of ethnicity, religion or culture.

We respect others way of life and do not involve in them. We will also not let others get involved in our own internal affairs.

 

[Sinnerman108]

Rape is a kind of vegetable...

thanks (y)

 

[patero]

The seeds of this plant are used to make Rapeseed oil, also known as Canola oil.

 

[jamahir]

What's the mullah movements like the Tableeghi Jamaat from India? any link?

Tableeghi Jamaaat literally means Preacher Gathering/Group. It is basically a movement that seeks to "bring back" Sunni Islam to those Muslims that they think have moved away from the religion. For example, those who don't attend prayers.

At best, the TJ is an irritation. At worst, it is the launching pad for future terrorists.

The TJ derives its ideology from the Deobandi sect among Muslims. The Deobandi sect origins in the Deoband town in Northern India.

Last year, the TJ had a fall-out with its parental movement ( Deoband ).

Both, the TJ and the general Deobandis are a regressive bunch.

For more info on the TJ please read this.

Sometimes some mulims lack brain cells, you can't understand them. They wear burqa in saudi, because the wind and dusty is strong there. Why do the women from wet and hot countries wear burqa?

because the huge influence of Saud in Islam world.

Yes, Saudia has a big influence among the global population of Muslims but even then the House of Saud is not the origin of the burqa.

It turns out that the burqa origins in a Jewish sect. I will copy-paste my post from another thread :

An Egyptian member of parliament, Amna Nosseir, has researched on this and has called for a ban on the burqa :

An Egyptian lawmaker has said members of parliament are drafting a law that would ban women from wearing the burqa in government institutions after alleging the Islamic full-face veil was a "Jewish tradition".

Amna Nosseir said on Sunday that the proposed ban would be in the best interest of Egyptian society and that she has been battling against the burqa over the past 40 years.

Nosseir, who wears the hijab, said on Wednesday that the burqa - known in Arabic as the niqab - had its origins in Jewish religious law.

"In the Old Testament, you find in chapter 38 that the Jewish religious authorities tell you that if Jewish women leave the house without covering the face and head then they are breaking Jewish religious law," the lawmaker said during an interview with local media.

"I have gathered around 20 texts by Jewish religious authorities that completely forbid women from showing their faces and heads," Nosseir said while discussing also banning female university students from wearing "ripped jeans" in lectures.

She added that this part of Jewish law became entrenched in pre-Islamic Arab tribes of the Arabian Peninsula and then spread throughout the Middle East with the Muslim conquests.

The verse the lawmaker could be referring to is Genesis 38, where a biblical figure encounters his daughter-in-law in the street and mistakes her for a prostitute because she had covered her face with a veil.

 

[TaiShang]

Young Xinjiang players train at top Chinese clubs in boost for national unity

By Shan Jie in Weifang Source:Global Times Published: 2018/10/30

○ Talented young soccer players from Xinjiang are training and studying in China's best soccer clubs

○ After adapting to a new lifestyle and studying Putonghua, some go on to play leading roles at youth and even national level

○ The Xinjiang players positively influence their communities and contribute to national unity, say authorities

Mustafa, 11, from Ili, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, trains at Shandong Luneng Taishan Football club. Photo: Li Hao/GT


As 11-year-old Mustafa walks on campus, almost everybody greets him.

"Hey Mustafa!" shouts one coach.

"You've come to see our training!" jokes a passing player from the age-14 team who rubs Mustafa's hair.

An outgoing boy with bowl haircut and a cherubic, chubby face, Mustafa is not shy about sharing his dream to play soccer like Neymar, his Brazilian idol.

Mustafa plays in the age-11 team at Luneng Taishan Football Club in East China's Shandong Province and has been training and studying in the club's Luneng Taishan football school in the city of Weifang since 2016.

He is one of 25 young players from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region at the school.

As early as 2001, the Luneng soccer school began cooperating with the Xinjiang government and soccer authorities to import and support young talent.

There have been about 70 Xinjiang players who studied at the school since then including Mirahmetjan Muzepper, the first Xinjiang local to play for China's national team.

Some soccer fans invest special hope in Xinjiang players, seeing them as a potential solution to the national team's decades of global humiliation.

The young Xinjiang players "work hard and have potential," a Luneng coach tells the Global Times.

"Soccer is a soundless language that is universal among all ethnic groups," says Tan Zhaohui, deputy general manager of Shandong Luneng sports culture branch of the State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company.

Subi, captain of China's national Under-16 team and winner of the Golden Boy at the 2017 China Footballer of the Year award. Photo: IC

Mustafa's goal

Mustafa is training as the Global Times reporters arrive at the boarding school of China's multiple championship-winning club.

Luneng boasts one of the best youth training systems with the best facilities and coaches in China.

Opened in 1999, the campus resembles some of the fancy international schools in Beijing and Shanghai, with 26 training pitches including 19 with real grass.

Seeing the reporters approach, Mustafa promptly distributes a dozen soccer balls to teammates with exquisite long passes around the verdant pitch.

As training ends, Mustafa and best friend Quddus, on duty that day, throw all the training equipment onto a trolley.

They chat and giggle in their native Uyghur language on the way back.

In the canteen, Mustafa piles chicken legs on his plate.

"Aunty, you made good food today!" he tells the dinner lady with a big grin and thumbs-up.

All the Muslim players pick up their Halal food at a special kiosk and then sit together with their other teammates.

"The first years when we enrolled Xinjiang children, we put them together and equipped them with Xinjiang coaches," Tan, who is also the executive vice-president of the school, tells the Global Times in Luneng's head office in Jinan, capital city of Shandong.

"But we found it didn't work," Tan says. "They became a small clique and could not fit in the teams."

The school mixed up all the players and pushed the Xinjiang children harder to study Putonghua "so they will not be lonely, nor have a feeling of inferiority," Tan says.

At dinner, Mustafa's teammates joke in dialects as diverse as Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region through Inner Mongolia to Beijing.

Some learned a little Uyghur language from the Xinjiang players like "yakexi!", "bravo!" They even know a few curse words.

"If I don't become a soccer player, I will be a rapper," says Mustafa.

He exudes a warm and inclusive self-confidence.

Two years ago when he first came to Shandong, Mustafa could not speak much Putonghua.

Nor did he much care for the canteen food, notably vegetables.

It took him two days to learn how to make a bed and he often cried himself asleep at night.

To help Mustafa adjust to life at the school, his father quit his job and stayed with him in Weifang for a year.

It was his father who gave Mustafa his first soccer ball on his 4th birthday.

When Mustafa was 6, scouts from Luneng invited him to join the school in Shandong.

Ili, his hometown, is 3,974 kilometers from Weifang.

Mustafa's mother, a primary school Chinese language teacher, insisted her son was too young to leave.

Finally, at 9, Mustafa, accompanied by his father, came to start training.

His soccer and Putonghua have improved - and so has his English.

"We Xinjiang children have better pronunciation of English," he says, with a wry smile at the Global Times English-language reporter.

Mustafa has visited South Korea for tournaments and travelled with his team to other cities in China.

He is a student of class 2, grade 4. His class has 27 students from ages 9, 10 and 11 teams, eight from Xinjiang.

Schooling is free for all Luneng youth team players.

Players as young as Mustafa have about seven classes daily including Putonghua, English and math. After class, they have a one and half-hour training sessions.

Before the new semester, Mustafa wrote in a school essay that he would work hard to become captain of his team and that his future goal was to play for Luneng Taishan in China's Super League.

"My biggest dream is to play in La Liga of Spain," he says.

How about Real Madrid?

"To play for any team in La Liga would be good enough."

Mustafa has a role model: Subi, captain of China's national Under-16 team who won the Golden Boy prize in the 2017 China Footballer of the Year awards.

Subi tells the Global Times that he could not speak a word of Putonghua when he first came to Luneng aged 9, but he gradually grasped it and became a reliable leader of his team.

There are other, more complex issues.

Ihsan, the first-choice goalkeeper of Luneng's age-10 team, encountered some difficulties in obtaining a passport in time for travel to a Japanese tournament.

"But we are cooperating with local governments in Xinjiang to improve the process," Tan says. Luneng is considered "a model for national unity" by the city of Weifang, Tan notes.

The personal growth of players can influence their communities, Tan says. Subi, for example, is a hero to many Xinjiang kids.

Asadullah, 9, also from Ili, studies at Luneng Taishan football school. His teacher says he is talented at math, but not so much Chinese and English. Photo: Li Hao/GT

Soccer hotbed

There are more than 60 Xinjiang players in the adult and Under-23 teams of 32 clubs in the China Super League and China League One.

Younger Xinjiang players are training at top clubs like Evergrande Taobao Football Club in South China's Guangdong Province and China Fortune FC in North China's Hebei Province.

"Xinjiang has a great atmosphere for soccer," says Tan. "Parents take their children playing soccer very serious… Local schools also have great passion in promoting soccer."

Luneng is also helping train coaches for Xinjiang primary and high schools. Their scouts and coaches go to certain Xinjiang schools chasing talent.

The school is also seeking to help promote soccer development in other less-developed and border regions.

Luneng has built at least 27 youth talent bases across China including in Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia autonomous regions.

Children of different ethnic groups and from different regions growing up together and knowing each other will positively influence their families and their communities, Tan believes.

"Soccer connects people of different ethnicities and from different regions," he says.

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Great!

China government helps Uighurs in Xinjiang Province develop a secular entertainment culture (rap music) or industry (football) in order to integrate them into the larger society.

This is similar to the US regime approach to Native Indians. US taught Native Indians how to gamble and drink profusely (culture) and gave them an exclusive business (casino). This way they have assimilated and integrated all Native Indians.

@Yingluck , @Place Of Space