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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Xinjiang: Commentaries and Links

The perspective of the Chinese Government Woman behind Xinjiang riot caught self-contradictory via Xinhua Uygur official condemns riot, calls for healing in Xinjiang Xinhua Islamic college thanked for sheltering civilians in Urumqi riot Xinhua The perspective of the International Media Behind the Violence in Xinjiang New York Times Open Ed (USA) Xinjiang: one of Asia’s [...]

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Ramadan Crackdown & the use of Terminology: Chinese Muslim vs. Uiygar vs. Hui vs. Han Muslim

Before delving into the issue regarding Ramadan restrictions in Xinjiang I wanted to clarify some terminology which most people outside of China get wrong. Thus for example the media often uses the term “Chinese Muslims” as if there is a monolith of 25 million people in China, or when the media announcs the restrictions on [...]

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Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak to Muslims all over the world. Children play in a street of Kax, city of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 24, 2006, on the first day of Eid al-Fitr. (Xinhua Photo)

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