Chinese Muslims

Source : Agencies | 25 Mar 2013

As the Chinese government increases its repressive regulations on East Turkestan, a new regulation has further increased tension.

The administration has lately issued a circulation decreeing that Chinese flags be hung at mosques and that the flags be protected by the mosque imams tied to the Communist Party. As mandated in the circulars, flagpoles were erected at all mosques and flags were hung.

Source : OnIslam | 13 Aug 2012

Growing from a handful of Muslim residents a decade ago, the Muslim community in the south-west of Shanghai Yiwu city has remarkably become the fastest growing Muslim community in China.

"It is really spectacular," the mosque's imam, Aisin-Gioro Baoquan, said of the increase in the number of Yiwu's Muslims, The National newspaper reported on Sunday, August 12.

Source : Agencies | 05 Jul 2012

China has detained and intimidated dozens of ethnic Uighurs in the far western region for speaking out on rights abuses following riots in the regional capital three years ago, Amnesty International said.

In July 2009, the capital city of Urumqi was rocked by violence between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people.

Source : OnIslam | Beijing | 20 Jun 2012

China has launched a new campaign to search houses of Uighur Muslims in the north-western Xinjiang province, a move as a new sign of religious and cultural repression of the sizable minority.

"According to arrangements made by relevant departments at higher levels, our joint residential police bureaus will be inspecting all buildings in residential and family compounds," said a police notice posted in Hetian's Gujiangbage quarter cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Source : Agencies | 06 Jun 2012

Chinese police said it raided a Koran-teaching school in Uighur region, China state media said on Wednesday, in what an exiled rights group said was a violent raid.

China media said, police "rescued 54 children from illegal preachers".

However, a German-based Uighur exile group, the World Uyghur Congress, said police had used teargas to attack an Islamic school teaching children the Koran.

By : Abdul Hannan Tago | Arab News | Riyadh 01 Jun 2012

The Chinese government pursues a policy of “ethnic equality and religious freedom” under which Muslims enjoy equal rights and share in the harmonious sunshine of the Chinese socialist family, the vice president and secretary-general of China Islamic Association told representatives of the Arab media during a meeting at his office in China recently.

By OnIslam & News Agencies | Yinchuan | 18 Oct 2011

Fulfilling one of Islam's main pillars, hundreds of Chinese Muslims from northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region embarked on the life-time spiritual journey of hajj on Monday, October 17.

"The Makkah pilgrimage is my biggest hope in my life," 66-year-old Ma Zhuangyu told Xinhua news agency.

“But I could not afford the trip in the past due to financial reasons.”

Zhuangyu was one of the first group of pilgrims in Ningxia who will go to Makkah on a government-organized trip this year.

Source : Anadolu Agency
Guangzhou | 25 Aug 2011

Chinese Muslims gather in the Great Mosque of Guangzhou for fast-breaking dinner every evening.

Hundreds of Muslims from several nations have their fast-breaking dinner at the Great Mosque of Guangzhou, known also as Huaisheng Mosque (Memorial of the Holy Prophet).

Rebuilt many times over its history, Huaisheng Mosque is traditionally thought to have been originally built over 1,300 years ago, which would make it one of the oldest mosques in the world. It was named in memory of Prophet Muhammad.

Source : Eurasia Review
BEIJING | 12 Aug 2011

China is placing restrictions on its Muslim Uyghur population during the fasting month of Ramadan, following a string of violent attacks in its northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, said Ramadan, which runs roughly from Aug. 1 to 30 this year, has brought a fresh clampdown on Muslims in the wake of violent attacks in the Silk Road cities of Kashgar and Hotan.

Source : Agencies
Kashgar : China | 03 Aug 2011

Tensions ran high in Kashgar city Tuesday after Chinese authorities shot dead two men suspected of fomenting deadly ethnic unrest and vowed a further crackdown on "religious extremists".

Armed police stood guard outside the main mosque in Kashgar -- China's biggest -- on Tuesday, as Muslim residents in the city observed the holy month of Ramadan.

There was a heavy police presence and the streets of the city remained quiet after the violence, but some shops and businesses had reopened by Tuesday.