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China Sees Islamic State Inching Closer to Home--Foreign Policy They've
been grabbing headlines nearly everywhere else, but the jihadis of
northern Iraq haven't been getting much play in China. But a
threat by the Islamic State (IS) of revenge against countries, including
China, for seizing what IS calls "Muslim rights" appears to
have changed all that. The comments were made in early July, but
the news didn't jump the language barrier from Arabic into
Mandarin until August 8, when Phoenix Weekly, a Hong Kong-based
newsmagazine widely distributed in China, made the IS revenge
If China Is Anti-Islam, Why Are These Chinese Muslims Enjoying a Faith Revival? | TIME With violent unrest affecting northwestern Xinjiang, a spotlight has been cast on that area’s Muslim Uighurs, who have long chafed at rule from Beijing. But the Uighurs, some of whom yearn for autonomy from the People’s Republic, are not the biggest Muslim population in China, which has more adherents to Islam than the European Union. That distinction belongs to the Hui, a 10.5 million-strong group that is also the second largest of China’s 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities. One of the Hui centers of Islamic learning is the Wild West town of Linxia, in Gansu province, where Sufi traditions remain vibrant. http://time.com/3099950/china-muslim-hui-xinjiang-uighur-islam/?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=742a2e77a8-Sinocism08_12_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-742a2e77a8-29615013&mc_cid=742a2e77a8&mc_eid=5935182a65
If China Is Anti-Islam, Why Are These Chinese Muslims Enjoying a Faith Revival? | TIME With violent unrest affecting northwestern Xinjiang, a spotlight has been cast on that area’s Muslim Uighurs, who have long chafed at rule from Beijing. But the Uighurs, some of whom yearn for autonomy from the People’s Republic, are not the biggest Muslim population in China, which has more adherents to Islam than the European Union. That distinction belongs to the Hui, a 10.5 million-strong group that is also the second largest of China’s 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities. One of the Hui centers of Islamic learning is the Wild West town of Linxia, in Gansu province, where Sufi traditions remain vibrant. http://time.com/3099950/china-muslim-hui-xinjiang-uighur-islam/?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=742a2e77a8-Sinocism08_12_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-742a2e77a8-29615013&mc_cid=742a2e77a8&mc_eid=5935182a65
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