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).

  • 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.

                  • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    13·
                    10 months ago

                    What’s the same? Government sets laws. People break laws. People go to jail for breaking laws. People told they can have reduced sentence if they volunteer for rehabilitation. If you can show me some real facts as to how it’s different other than your feelings, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. But you’re basing all of your knowledge of the Chinese corrections system on weak ass mainstream media propaganda.

                    Every terrorist is someone’s freedom fighter. Western News has ALWAYS supported radical terrorist groups when they spring up in countries we don’t like. This isn’t rocket science. If there was genocide in Xinjiang it would be hard to contain. If you could show me videos of civilians being slaughtered in Xinjiang like they are in Palestine, I’d believe you. Until I see the footage though, it’s all bullshit. Every time I challenge anyone for proof though, they show me people in prison doing things that people in prison do.

                • 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.

                  • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    12·
                    10 months ago

                    Oh, no one follows that, silly. In the US people get wrongly convicted regularly. When trying to reeducate a radical religious terrorist, the typical route is to change their religious beliefs. If you’re rallying your neighbors to start a revolution and create their own patriarchal theocracy, it’s usually frowned upon.

                    Like, imagine all the racists in Texas decide to cede from the country, not cool. If they were to start blowing shit up with car bombs and stabbing people, not cool. Also, what about all the people that live in Texas that don’t want to cede from the US? Not cool.

                    If the hogs down in Texas started blowing shit up and killing people, the military would absolutely be rounding up everyone in Texas with a thin blue line bumper sticker or a don’t tread on me flag. The prisons would be overflowing with people. This is Xinjiang. Do with this as you like

        • 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