While I hardly agree with their methods, I must say that (in this
narrow case) I am sympathetic to their sentiments.
Then again, Christians have arguably suffered far longer in China, and
have found a better way to respond...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China
http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/Christians-in-China.html
When the Communists took over in 1949 the reported number of
Christians in the country was 700,000. Today the statistics vary
according to the reporting entity however; official government
statistics put the number at 25-30 million, an incredible increase
since 1949 making Christianity the second largest religious
affiliation in China next to Buddhism.
On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:28 AM, [email protected] wrote:
"Al-Qaeda calls for holy war against China"
("EarthTimes", October 7, 2009)
Cairo, Egypt - A senior al-Qaeda leader in a video distributed
Wednesday urged Muslims to launch a holy war against Chinese
"invaders" in response to the "massacre" of Uighurs in western
China. "The atheist criminals have long used the most despicable,
cruel and brutal means against Muslims in Turkistan," said Abu Yayha
al- Libi, who is sometimes identified as the commander in
Afghanistan of the international terrorist network al-Qaeda.
"Thousands of Muslims were killed, and no one knows about them," he
said in the 20-minute video, referring to Uighurs living in China.
Muslims with historical and linguistic ties to the Turkic peoples of
Central Asia, Uighurs live in the western Chinese province of
Xinjiang, which Islamists call East Turkistan.
According to the Washington-based terrorism monitoring group
IntelCenter, the tape was made around late July or early August and
released Tuesday by al-Sahab Media, al-Qaeda's media arm.
Nearly 200 people were killed and thousands injured or arrested in
clashes between Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang in July.
In August, the Turkistan Islamic Party, a Uighur separatist group
that claimed responsibility for a 2008 bombing in Shanghai, used
similar language to call for attacks in response to the "massacre"
of Uighurs in Xinjiang.
"There is no path to salvation or toward lifting oppression and
injustice save by returning to religion," al-Libi said. Muslims
"must sincerely prepare for jihad (holy war) and take up arms
against the ruthless invaders."
"Consecutive Chinese governments have worked hard to sever every
link between the wounded people of Turkistan and the Muslim nation,"
he said. "They are working to destroy them so that their numbers
will decrease and their Islamic identity will be dissolved."
Al-Libi called for "a media campaign to tell the Muslim nation the
truth about what is going on there and to expose Chinese colonialism."
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