The Chinese government has banned Muslims in the Xinjiang region from celebrating Ramadan, a traditional monthlong period of fasting and spiritual reflection. A spokesman for the World Uighur Congress said authorities encouraged Uighurs to eat free meals, and inspected homes to check whether families were observing the fast.
IB Times Several government agencies and schools posted the ban notices on their websites, saying it was aimed at preventing the institutions from being used to promote religion. Similar bans have been imposed in the past on fasting for Ramadan, which began at sundown Saturday. But this year is unusually sensitive because Xinjiang is under tight security following attacks that the government blames on Muslim extremists with foreign terrorist ties, according to the Associated Press.
Violent clashes between Uighurs and ethnic Chinese has risen in recent years. In July 2009, conflicts between the Han Chinese and the Uighur erupted, killing nearly 200 people in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi.
During Ramadan, Muslims around the world fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious. The commercial affairs bureau of Turfan, an oasis city in the Taklamakan Desert, said on its website Monday that “civil servants and students cannot take part in fasting and other religious activities,” according to the South China Morning Post.
The state-run Bozhou Radio and TV University warned the ban would also be enforced “on party members, teachers, and young people from taking part in Ramadan activities.” “We remind everyone that they are not permitted to observe a Ramadan fast,” it added.
Xinjiang, also as known as East Turkestan, is an “autonomous” region in northwestern China, which is inhabited by the Uighur, a racially distinct Muslim minority with their own language who demand total independence from Beijing. There are about 10.2 million Uighurs in Xinjiang, according to a 2002 census (the latest available) conducted by China.
“China taking these kind of coercive measures, restricting the faith of Uighur, will create more conflict,” Dilxadi Rexiti, a spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, said. “We call on China to ensure religious freedom for Uighur and stop political repression of Ramadan.”
The Uighur say they have often been subjected to racial and religious discrimination by the Chinese government. China accuses Uighur militants of waging a violent campaign for an independent state.
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I support China BANNING Ramadan. Islam is FALSE. Islam is of the Devil. Ramadan (fasting on the ninth month for a month by visually sighting the Crescent Moon). ?
Was Ramadan a pagan practice? By: Christian Prince (CP).;
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let’s see if they have the balls for a riot because of the government prohibition…hahahahaha
Only 10 million of them? Why doesn’t China just kill them all? It’s not like they have a problem with killing millions of people.
Give it time. They ain’t mad enough yet….
Who the Chinese or the Muslims?
good they are smarter than we are
Good for China though I am not sure how they can enforce an attempt to not eat.
Thus far the Muslims have pissed off Europe, North America and The West in general, the Russians, the Hindus, Buddhists, the Chinese, Christian Africans; there is only South America left (though they did try by blowing up a Jewish social centre in Argentina some years back).
Its symbolic.
It demonstrates that we have you by the balls and will rip them off if you piss us off again.
This is a subtle hint of what is to come.
We call for this and that and blah blah blah, demand more like. But of course, don’t ever expect any reciprocity whatsoever. Want to talk about “religious freedom” ? How about they lead the way huh ?
And of course, always the “will create more conflict” (is that a veiled threat ?), pretty much like that Saudi raghead demanding Western governments trample all over our freedoms of expression which according to them, of course is abused and here too threaten stability and blah blah blah. Usual crap really, when in fact they and they only are the threat, not us.
So to hell with them and not found of China in the slightest, but gotta give them points for that one.
Well, G_D bless the Chinese government.
I hope the Uighur’s go ahead and celebrate. Then the Chinese can go ahead and eliminate the Uighur’s and give them their independent state, ajar with their ashes.
Would that be called “Ajarashtan”?
YUP-!
lmao!
David Cameron, Obama watch and learn from the professionals, this is how you deal with them… they want to behave like animals, we will treat them like animals
Hooray for China. Throw the Muslim bums out of your country before it’s too late.
The officials had tried this in the past, so In addition to banning Ramadan events force them to eat pork this time. If they refuse, break out the restraints and feeding tubes! Each time they act out add another punishment that goes against their cult beliefs.
Banning Ramadan is no punishment or deterrent. They should ban Islam; it’s the only way.
Cool.
Muslims in China will react to this with a wave of murder, and I hope the Chinese officials will mow them down with machine gun fire.
Sadly, only a totalitarian state can deal with them effectively. In Democracies it is the people who must act. The Hindus in India occasionally riot and kill of dozens of Muslims when they become too much of a bother. Will Europeans, Brits and Americans ever get to that point? Are they too weakened by so-called civilized upbringing which makes them candidates to become Dhimmies.
Saddam also knew how to control Muslimes Hords STRENGTH OF DISCIPLIN over them sand rats!
I think that the American travesty of how we treated the Native American (also a radically different culture that our own), holds us back. It is a lesson learned too well (now, to our detriment).
Reading this, I can honestly say “Good Morning”, Bonni! Thanks for the good news!
That’s the way to do it! Now watch and learn Cameron,watch and learn.
That ought to put a crimp in a few Muslim plans!
That is just a start – BAN islam – leave Satan’s religion or DIE!!!
Why is China the only nation that understands how to deal with Islam? European nations, the USA and Canada need to follow suit.
TH, India does not support these muslims as well. These inbreeds always started riots against mostly Hindus and other minorities like Christians etc, but believe me they got their asses handed to them by the so called kaffirs. Now these motherfuckers live like the bitches of the kaffirs. The religion Sikhism was formed to fight these inbreeds in India. From time immemorial the Hindus and the Sikhs have fought these inbreeds to keep India a secular country which supports free speech unlike our neighbours Pakistan and Bangladesh both of which are Islamic republic. You can Google these facts to check their authenticity
That’s right islam should be outlawed all over the world and make it illegal if anybody practice it.