China will introduce new regulations on February 1 on how Islam and other religions can be practiced in its western Xinjiang Province, requiring mosques and ceremonies to reflect "Chinese characteristics" as part of Beijing's campaign to "sinicize Islam."

In a move set to tighten government control over practicing religion in China’s western Xinjiang Province, the Muslim-majority region will introduce a set of regulations that – among other things – will require all new places of worship to reflect “Chinese characteristics and style.”

The sweeping legislation will come into force on February 1 as part of a broader multiyear campaign aimed at controlling religion in Xinjiang, which is home to mainly Muslim ethnic groups such as Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Hui (aka Dungans).

  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
    601·
    10 months ago

    I mean china is already sending them to concentration camps doeant get much worse than that. But it seems nobody cares.

    • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      446·
      10 months ago

      The Turkistan Islamic Party keeps attacking civilians in Xinjiang but it seems nobody cares.

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
        49·
        10 months ago

        So you’re saying the people being systematically oppressed and marginalized are turning radical in their helplessness? How rude of them. They should just shut up and go into the gas.

          • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            191·
            10 months ago

            I don’t agree with religion but you’re talking about “reeducation” like they’re not supposed to believe what they want.

            • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              122·
              10 months ago

              Arrests aren’t being made against people because they’re Muslim, they’re arresting people that’re suspected terrorists related to The Turkistan Islamic Party. The reeducation is based around not following terrorist groups and rehabilitation of terrorists.

              • blunderworldEnglish
                41·
                10 months ago

                So we should imprison people based on suspicion now? What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

                • SheeEttin@programming.devEnglish
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  Um… yes, that’s what arrests are for, detention on suspicion of a crime. Then there’s a trial to find guilt, a sentencing, then imprisonment.

                  • blunderworldEnglish
                    1·
                    10 months ago

                    You got me, I misspoke;should have said imprison rather than arrest.

                • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  17·
                  10 months ago

                  That’s an American law. You can’t hold Chinese criminals to American laws. I can play this game too. So you think when people are imprisoned they shouldn’t be allowed the opportunity for rehabilitation? Just prison forever, huh?

                  • blunderworldEnglish
                    51·
                    10 months ago

                    If you think that’s the same thing you are beyond delusional.

                  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    10 months ago

                    No its article 11 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Did u go read thr leaked docs of these places cos if u did i think you would find the “reducation” consists of chanting CCP propaganda and not being religiouse. Which sounds an awfull lot like the extermination of a culture.

          • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
            151·
            10 months ago

            Why does the government get to decide what they can believe and what not? Fucking totalitarian bullshit.

            • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              328·
              10 months ago

              Because the government doesn’t want a terrorist group to continue bombing the shit out of civilians so they reeducate them on not following terrorists. It’s not really a bad thing to want prisoners to be reeducated on not doing crimes.

            • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              517·
              10 months ago

              It looks like a prison… Which it is. Have you seen how the US treats terrorists and suspected terrorists in Guantanamo? These guards don’t even have guns pointed at the back of their heads. There’s no waterboarding or torture I’m seeing either. What are you expecting to see at a prison designed to contain and rehabilitate suspected terrorists? It’s not a Disney vacation.

              • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
                8·
                10 months ago

                No no no china lovingly refers to these as “vocational training schools” with voluntary attendance. The UN estimates that at least a million people where sent to these thats an awfull lot of people who must be terrorists. Let alone terrorists who volunterilly choose to be reducated. Ohh and china restricted the UN human rights commissioner who whent to visit which doesnt fill me with confidence. Also a bunch of the “students” have disapeared to who knows where.

                • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  19·
                  10 months ago

                  Well, considering that you can volunteer for reeducation or subject yourself to a prison sentence with hard labor, yeah, it’s voluntary. And it’s not just uyghers, not just Muslims, not just terrorists, but people from all over the country that’re deemed to not be serious threats, given the opportunity to get out with good behavior if they go through reeducation, then it’s really not that bad. Better than a US prison system

          • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Even though Hamas keeps attacking civilians? Because that’d be sorta the point

            • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              If you lived in an open air prison, you’d listen to whatever radical bullshit you were told that gives you the strength to fight and the hope to escape.

                • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Yeah, but I support the people and their struggle to not live in an open air prison and am against the genocide being committed so rich settlers can have beach front property in Gaza.