Xinjiang Crackdown and Changing Perceptions of China in the Islamic World?

How the recent events in China have changed its image in some Muslim countries. Source: http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35370 August 5, 2009 Xinjiang Crackdown and Changing Perceptions of China in the Islamic World? …… Views from the Muslim World In light of the recent events in Xinjiang, observers of China’s increasingly expanding and multifaceted relationship with the Middle [...]

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Xinjiang Update – 07/29/09

Xinjiang unrest ‘not ethnic’ Al Jazeera More controversy at the Melbourne International Film Festival ABC Australia Police have evidence of World Uyghur Congress masterminding Xinjiang riot Xinhua, Official Chinese News Agency China, Uighur Groups Give Conflicting Riot Accounts The Washington Post China’s Xinjiang vows ‘iron hand’ against violence AFP

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China to allow 2,700 Muslims to visit Mecca: report

via AFP. The numbers do not add up since a couple of years ago the Chinese government allowed 10,000 pilgrims to perform hajj but this news story is saying that only 30,000 Muslims from China have performed hajj in the last 20 years. I am guessing that this is a mmisprint and they actually mean [...]

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Why so silent – Uyghurs in China

Many people have complained in the past that one thing that is conspicuously missing from this blog is any discussion of the Uyghur people in China. Uyghur are predominantly Muslims and make up about half of all the Muslims in China. Some people have even left rather negative comments about this blog that the blog [...]

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