We’ve had reports of this for some time. A people living in the western part of China are known as Uighurs who are also ethnic Muslims. Word keeps coming out of the area that more than one million of them have been put into “re-education camps.”
Now, we learn that the government of Xinjiang, the region where they live, has just enacted legislation that says behaviour that could lead to detention include expanding the concept of halal - which means permissible in Islam - to areas of life outside diet, refusing to watch state TV and listen to state radio and preventing children from receiving state education.
China is also launching a wider campaign against Islamic practices across Xinjiang. It wants to stop the use of halal products that are not food.
One newspaper said the use of the term halal to describe items such as toothpaste blurred the line between religious and secular life and made people prey to religious extremism.
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On Monday Communist Party leaders in the regional capital Urumqi led cadres in swearing an oath to fight the "pan-halal trend", AFP reported.
New regulations also make it clear that Muslim women are banned from wearing veils.
Communist party members and bureaucrats have been told to speak Mandarin Chinese in public and not local languages.
There is much more to this of course but the tyrannical Chinese government simply will never permit anything to weaken its control over the largest country in the world. Outside Muslim groups can complain all they want but it will do them little good.
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