Wholegrain
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I call BS on this article. China is not Russia. China never blames "wahhabis/salafis" for unrest or terrorist activities. In fact, it was the Communist party which legalized wahhabism (ikhwan/yihewani and salafi/sailaifengye sects) in China unlike Russia where Russia turned Wahhabi into a dirty word.
Allvoices does not seem to be a legitimate news agency. China didn't say anyone was training ETIM members. All it said was that ETIM members traveled to Syria to join the fight in the globaltimes (an actual news agency from China).
Allvoices does not seem to be a legitimate news agency. China didn't say anyone was training ETIM members. All it said was that ETIM members traveled to Syria to join the fight in the globaltimes (an actual news agency from China).
China, while putting the blame on Wahabi/Salafist elements for unrest in its far-western region of Xinjiang, has linked the terrorist activities in China with Syrian opposition fighters stating that Syrian opposition forces are training Muslim extremists. The Syrian opposition fighters are believed to be elements of al Qaeda being funded and armed by Western countries and the US. They are fighting to overthrow pro-Iran Assad regime to enforce in Syria their brand of Islam which is practiced in Saudi Arabia.
Reuters has reported that it was the first time Beijing has blamed a group in Syria and fits a common narrative of the government portraying Xinjiang's violence as coming from abroad, such as Pakistan, and not due to homegrown anger. The extremists operating in Xinjiang want to liberate the area from China to establish a new state, East Turkestan. Xinjiang, though a part of Chinese union has a semi-independent status like Hong Kong and called Special Administrative Region. This province is populated by majority ethnic Uighurs who are predominantly Muslims and seek independence for religious as well as cultural reasons.
According to official Chinese anti-terrorism authorities, some members of the 'East Turkestan' faction have entered Syria from Turkey, participated in extremist, religious and terrorist organizations within the Syrian opposition forces and fought against the Syrian army. This is going on since 2012.
The world is clearly divided on Syrian crisis with Iran openly backing the incumbent regime and Russia extending moral and material support. With China now blaming its internal troubles on anti-Assad rebels, it is expected that pro-Assad support base will widen. The analysts feel that the US and its allies are making huge blunder in supporting Syrian rebels who are al Qaeda elements. Once they seize power in Syria, a remote possibility, then the world will witness increased terrorist activities beyond South Asia and the Middle East.
Terrorists in Xinjiang were trained by Syrian opposition forces, blames China