‘Boiling us like frogs’: China’s clampdown on Muslims creeps into the heartland, finds new targets

By artappraiser on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 10:30pm |

The Uighurs are under duress but the other major Muslim ethnicity in China, the Hui, are suffering a slow, quiet demise.

I revisited the Hui for first time in 2 years and saw a purge of ideas, symbols, culture, products — anything deemed not “Chinese.”https://t.co/unO13mVFjc
— Gerry Shih (@gerryshih) September 21, 2019

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/boiling-us-like-frogs-chinas-clampdown-on-muslims-creeps-into-the-heartland-finds-new-targets/2019/09/20/25c8bb08-ba94-11e9-aeb2-a101a1fb27a7_story.html

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The NYTimes today, by Steven Lee Myers from YINCHUAN:

A secret Communist Party directive, titled “Reinforcing and Improving Islam Work in the New Situation,” warns against the “Arabization” of Islamic places, fashions and rituals in China https://t.co/wtNzykZZiF
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) September 21, 2019

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/21/2019 - 6:07pm

Myers' article has photographic examples of what they are doing with mosques to try to "Sinicize" them:

Caption: A Chinese-style mosque in Mamichang, a village in the southern province of Yunnan.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has called for the “Sinicization of Islam.”
Credit: Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times

Caption: Prayers at a mosque in Linxia, on Sunday. Spray paint has been applied to the
vase on the right, possibly to cover up Arabic script.
Credit: Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/21/2019 - 6:19pm

I witnessed some of this firsthand a long time ago - it was alarming even then. I can only imagine with the "advances" of Internet 2.0 and related technology (and an even more repressive/self-assured Chinese government feeling its oats).

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/21/2019 - 10:47pm

‘Boiling us like frogs’: China’s clampdown on Muslims creeps into the heartland, finds new targets

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