#islam in china

[sasacademy]

[safije]

A mosque in Honhot, Inner Mongolia, China.

[nevzatboyraz44]

THERE IS OPPRESSION IN EASTERN TURKISTAN😓

هناك اضطهاد في شرق تركستان😓

DOĞU TÜRKİSTAN'DA ZULÜM VAR😓

in a 21-storey building in Urumqi.

lost his mother and 4 siblings in the fire Şeraf Memeteli from East Turkestan called out:

There is persecution in East Turkestan. I this I lost my family in the fire. not yet deceased

Even my youngest brother's face

I did not see. Due to China's quarantine sanctions 44 people who could not get out died.

في مبنى مكون من 21 طابقًا في أورومتشي.

فقد والدته و 4 من إخوته في الحريق

شراف مميتلي من تركستان الشرقية

خارج نطاق الخدمة:

هناك اضطهاد في تركستان الشرقية. أنا هذا

لقد فقدت عائلتي في الحريق. لم يتوفى بعد

حتى وجه أخي الأصغر لم ارى.

بسبب عقوبات الحجر الصحي الصينية

44 شخصًا لم يتمكنوا من الخروج ماتوا.

Urumçi'de 21 katlı binada çıkan yangında annesi ve 4 kardeşini kaybeden Doğu Türkistanlı Şerafet Memeteli dünyaya seslendi:

Doğu Türkistan'da zulüm var. Ben bu

yangında ailemi kaybettim. Henüz vefat eden en küçük kardeşimin yüzünü bile görmedim.

Çin'in karantina yaptırımı sebebiyle binadan çıkamayan 44 kişi hayatını kaybetmişti.

https://www.instagram.com/nevzat.boyraz44/?hl=tr

[violet-primroses]

Companies that use the forced labor of Muslims in concentration camps:

[divinum-pacis]

April 2024: Men offer Eid prayers at the Niujie Mosque in Beijing, China. [Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo]

[asmaalsubaie]

FreePalestine

[gwenllian-in-the-abbey]

geometry and a minaret in turpan, photo by me @gwenllian-in-the-abbey

[daaft-prick-69]

[secular-jew]

[starlightshadowsworld]

In the holy month of Ramadan, knowing that while we're safe with our family's celebrating.

That our Uyghur siblings are being tortured, forced apart, raped, starved, forcibly sterilised etc.

More than 1 million are imprisoned in these concentration camps since 2017.

All while Xinjang and China try to hide their despicable crimes.

[just-say-bismillah]

Yesterday, I made the decision to officially jump from hijab to niqab. A freedom and choice many women don’t have.

Today, I think of the women of France

The women of Quebec

The women of Switzerland

And the women of china, who don’t even have the freedom to cover their hair

Everyone should have the choice of whether or not to practice their faith. We should be able to freely choose how much or how little we get to cover.

[ammg-old2]

Until a decade ago, the pilgrims would travel by bus, car, donkey and foot to gather by the thousands at the Imam Asim Shrine in the desert on China’s western frontier.

They trudged through the sand dunes to kneel at the sacred site dedicated to Imam Asim, a Muslim holy man who helped defeat the Buddhist kingdom that had ruled here over a thousand years ago. The devotees were Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority, and often joined annual festivals to pray for abundant harvests, good health and strong babies.

They tied strips of cloth carrying prayerful messages to wooden posts around and near the shrine. They delighted in fairground amusements on the site’s edge, where magicians, wrestlers and musicians entertained the crowds. They clustered around storytellers reciting ancient tales.

“It was not just a pilgrimage. There were performers, games, food, seesaws for the children, poetry reading, and a whole area for story-telling,” said Tamar Mayer, a professor at Middlebury College who visited the Imam Asim Shrine for research in 2008 and 2009. “It was still so full of people, and full of life.”

Even then the authorities were trying to limit the crowds at the shrine with checkpoints. By 2014, pilgrims had been almost entirely banned. And by last year, much of the shrine had been demolished. Wooden fences and poles that once encircled the tomb and held fluttering prayer flags had been torn down. Satellite images show that a mosque at the site was leveled. All that remained was the mud-brick building marking the tomb of Imam Asim, which appeared to be intact amid the ruins.

The Chinese authorities have in recent years closed and demolished many of the major shrines, mosques and other holy sites across Xinjiang that have long preserved the culture and Islamic beliefs of the region’s Muslims.

The effort to close off and erase these sites is part of China’s broader campaign to turn the region’s Uighurs, Kazakhs and members of other Central Asian ethnic groups into loyal followers of the Communist Party. The assimilation drive has led to the detention of hundreds of thousands in indoctrination centers.

The new report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a research group based in Canberra, systematically gauges the degree of destruction and alteration to religious sites in recent years. It estimated that around 8,500 mosques across Xinjiang have been completely demolished since 2017 — more than a third of the number of mosques the government says are in the region.

“What it does show is a campaign of demolition and erasure that is unprecedented since the Cultural Revolution,” said Nathan Ruser, the researcher at the institute who led the analysis. During the decade-long turmoil that unfolded from 1966 under Mao Zedong, many mosques and other religious sites were destroyed.

The institute, also known as ASPI, compiled a randomized sample of 533 known mosque sites across Xinjiang, and analyzed satellite images of each site taken at different times to assess changes. It studied the state of the region’s shrines, cemeteries and other sacred sites through a sample of 382 locations taken from a state-sponsored survey and online records.

[skipp3r]

they make us read west centered colonizer mindset shit. How can you as an art historian reduce egyptian culture to “egypt like” bro😭

[divinum-pacis]

2016: People arrive at the historic Niujie mosque as Muslims celebrate the Eid al-Fitr in the Chinese capital of Beijing. [Damir Sagolj/Reuters]

[labbaik-ya-hussain-as]

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[doamuslims]

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas wrapped up a trip to #China Friday after seeking economic aid and voicing support for China’s anti-Islam and oppressive policies against #Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan.

In the statement, the Palestinian Authority said issues regarding China’s policy toward Muslims in Xinjiang have “nothing to do with human rights and are aimed at excising extremism and opposing terrorism and separatism.”