Category Archives: Islam in East Asia

‘MODERATE’ MUSLIM INDONESIA TEARS DOWN CHURCH, PARISHIONERS WATCH IN HORROR

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The tolerance just oozes out of their yells of allhu akbar.

indonesia mustards tear down church 23.3.2013

The church group secured more than the required numbers of signatures from local community supporters in order to get approval for the extensions, but local community leaders refused the request under pressure from local Islamists.

Church Demolished in ‘Moderate’ Indonesia!

By  • on March 23, 2013

We are often fed the idea that Indonesia is a ‘moderate’ Islamic nation.  Events on the ground would suggest something very different.  The Australia News Network reports on the demolition of a Christian Church near Jakarta (1).  Click HERE for the Australia News Network Coverage which includes a video about the issue.

Again, we don’t hear a peep from the supposed high priests of religious tolerance at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).  The OIC promoted UNHRC Resolution 16/18 that purports to confront threats to freedom of religion.  It seems very clear that the OIC does not in fact favour religious freedom and Indonesia is an OIC member state.  Perhaps to the OIC, religious freedom only means the freedom to expand the reach of sharia.

More here.

Two men suspected of trying to hijack a flight in China were beaten to death by passengers

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Now this should be a movie of the week.

Thoughts of these Chinese defenders will help me sleep for days.

From The Daily Mail:

By Amy Oliver

PUBLISHED: 15:01 GMT, 2 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:19 GMT, 2 July 2012

Two men who allegedly tried to hijack a plane in China were beaten to death by passengers and crew, state media said today.

The men were part of a six-strong gang, aged 20 to 36, who attempted to hijack a Tianjin Airlines flight bound for Urumqi last Friday.

Minutes after the flight carrying 101 people took off from Hetian, southwest Xinjiang, three men in the front and three in the back stood up and announced their plans to terrified passengers, according to reports.

Terrifying: The men were part of a six-strong gang, aged 20 to 36, who attempted to hijack a Tianjin Airlines flight bound for Urumqi last Friday (file picture)Terrifying: The men were part of a six-strong gang, aged 20 to 36, who attempted to hijack a Tianjin Airlines flight bound for Urumqi last Friday (file picture)

The group, all from the city of Kashgar in the west of Xinjiang, then broke a pair of aluminum crutches and used the pieces to attack passengers while trying to break into the cockpit, a regional government spokesman said.

They were tackled by police and passengers who tied them up with belts before the plane returned to the airport safely just 22 minutes later.

Several passengers and crew members were injured in the tussle. The alleged hijackers were taken to hospital where two of them later died, the state-run Global Times reported.

 

The newspaper said two others were hospitalised after mutilating themselves, but gave no others details.

 

 

The regional government spokesman added the men had smuggled  suspected explosives on board. These were still being tested by police today.

Xinjiang is home to a large population of minority Uighurs (pronounced WEE’-gurs), but is ruled by China’s ethnic majority Hans.

There have been clashes between authorities and Uighurs resentful of government controls over their religion and culture.

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Sri Lanka Buddhist monks destroy Muslim shrine

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I wonder if this BBC article will mention the giant Buddhist statues that the Taliban destroyed for no reason whatsoever except they were Buddhist? Or that Afghanistan was a Buddhist country by choice, forcibly converted to Islam? Or the constant slaughter of Buddhists by Muslims in, for example, Thailand for no reason other than the Muslims want to ethnically cleanse out Buddhists from Buddhist land.

From BBC:

By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo

The crowd demolishing the shrine (Photo courtesy: Sri Lanka Mirror) The demolition has been denounced by both Muslims and Sinhalese (Photo courtesy: Sri Lanka Mirror)

A group of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka led a crowd that demolished a Muslim shrine last week, the BBC has learned.

This incident took place on Saturday in Anuradhapura, an ancient Buddhist city and Unesco world heritage site.

The monk who led the group told the BBC he did it because the shrine was on land that was given to Sinhalese Buddhists 2,000 years ago. Continue Reading →

Militants had no overseas terror links, official says

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This is interesting if true. It means Islam inspired these attacks and not Al Queda.

From South China Morning Post:

Choi Chi-yuk
Sep 16, 2011 The militant groups that launched three bloody attacks in Hotan and Kashgar in late July were homegrown and had no foreign terror links, Xinjiang authorities said yesterday as they released new details about the assailants….

Meanwhile, from AP:

 

BEIJING (AP) — A militant Muslim group claimed by video it carried out recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people, a monitoring group said.

The video was purportedly made by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which seeks independence for China’s western Xinjiang region, the SITE Intelligence Group said this week. The militants are believed to be based in Pakistan, where security experts say core members have been trained by al-Qaida.

Xinjiang is home to largely Muslim ethnic Uighurs (pronounced WEE’-gur) who say they have been marginalized by an influx of China’s majority Han to the region. Ethnic riots there two years ago killed at least 197 people.

Security has been raised, but still, dozens were killed in slashings and arson and hit-and-run attacks in the cities of Hotan and Kashgar in July.

The more than 10-minute video released in late August features Turkistan Islamic Party leader Abdul Shakoor Damla, whose face is blotted out, saying those attacks were revenge against the Chinese government.

Ben Venzke, of Washington-based IntelCenter, another monitor of militant groups, said TIP threatened to attack the 2008 Beijing Olympics and should be taken seriously.

Muslim militant group claims western China attacks

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This is part of the article. For the rest, please click through to Google News:

By CHI-CHI ZHANG, Associated Press – 14 hours ago

BEIJING (AP) — A militant Muslim group claimed by video it carried out recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people, a monitoring group said.

The video was purportedly made by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which seeks independence for China’s western Xinjiang region, the SITE Intelligence Group said this week. The militants are believed to be based in Pakistan, where security experts say core members have been trained by al-Qaida.

Xinjiang is home to largely Muslim ethnic Uighurs (pronounced WEE’-gur) who say they have been marginalized by an influx of China’s majority Han to the region. Ethnic riots there two years ago killed at least 197 people.

Security has been raised, but still, dozens were killed in slashings and arson and hit-and-run attacks in the cities of Hotan and Kashgar in July.

The more than 10-minute video released in late August features Turkistan Islamic Party leader Abdul Shakoor Damla, whose face is blotted out, saying those attacks were revenge against the Chinese government.

Ben Venzke, of Washington-based IntelCenter, another monitor of militant groups, said TIP threatened to attack the 2008 Beijing Olympics and should be taken seriously.

“Their profile has been heightened since threats made during the Olympics and videos have shown us that they have even received recognition from senior al-Qaeda leaders recognizing their presence in China,” Venzke said.

In 2008, TIP released videos claiming responsibility for several bus bombings in China and warned Muslims to stay away from any place Han Chinese were, including buses, planes, buildings and trains.

Muslim group in china takes credit for dozens of innocent deaths

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China: Militant Group Claims Responsibility For Xinjiang Attacks

September 8, 2011 STRATFOR

A 10-minute video featuring jihadist militant group Turkistan Islamic Party leader Abdul Shakoor Damla claims responsibility for recent attacks in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, AP reported Sept. 8. In the video which was released in late August, Damla said the attacks — which resulted in the deaths of at least three dozen people — were perpetrated as revenge against the Chinese government. The SITE Intelligence Group said the Turkistan Islamic Party seeks the independence of Xinjiang region.

Xinjiang’s top official vows harsh crackdown on religious extremists

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From xinhuanet

URUMQI, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) — The top official of far western China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has ordered a harsh crackdown on religious extremists in the latest clampdown on outbursts of violence.

Zhang Chunxian, secretary of Xinjiang regional committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), made the pledge at a regional government meeting in the wake of a trio of deadly attacks in the region.

Zhang ordered cadres and officials to rely on the public to unswervingly curb illegal religious activities and crack down on the use of the religion to incite violence or organize terrorist attacks, local media reported Monday.

He said the managing of religious affairs should follow the central government’s policy to “protect the legitimate, ban the illegal, fight infiltration, and crack down on crimes.”

Xinjiang — with 41.5 percent of its 21 million population Uygurs, a largely Muslim Chinese ethnic group — is at China’s frontline against separatism, extremism and terrorism.

Two bloody attacks occurred in the city of Kashgar on the last weekend of July, leaving at least 14 civilians killed and 42 others injured. Police shot dead eight attackers in clashes. The Kashgar violence followed a terrorist attack targeting a police station in the city of Hotan that left 18 people, including 14 attackers, killed. Continue Reading →

Beijing “warns” the Uyghurs it’s ready to kill anyone who protests

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From Asia News:

(There are some other articles over there on Chinese closing Mosques)

The Chinese authorities the northern province of Xinjiang post pictures of the last two Uyghurs killed in cold blood a few days ago on its website and warns: “They could be taken alive.” Analysts explained: “A clear message: those who rebel will be shot.”

Urumqi (AsiaNews) – Chinese authorities “are sending a clear message to the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang: those who rebel against the domination of Beijing will be unceremoniously killed”, say a number of analysts the day after the disturbing announcement on the website of the government of the autonomous province of Xinjiang, where the authorities have posted a photograph of two Uyghurs (pictured) murdered in cold blood after a being pursued by police and who “could have been taken alive.”

On August 1, Chinese police gunned down the two Uyghurs, suspected of being involved in the July 31 attack that caused the death of six people in a bar in Kashgar, in cold blood. The two – Memtieli Tiliwaldi (29) and Turson Hasan (34) – were killed in a cornfield and left there. Kashgar’s government had put a bounty of 100 thousand yuan (about 10 thousand euros) for their capture.

Before this latest bloody episode there were other violent events in the city of Hotan and in the provincial capital, Urumqi. Since 1949, the ethnic Uyghur – Turkic speaking Muslims- have been under the heel of the Chinese government which has imposed a series of extreme religious and cultural restrictions on them. Several groups claim independence and call for the restoration of East Turkestan, but the majority of Uyghurs are simply seeking greater autonomy. Continue Reading →

Mandatory veil and fasting as Indonesia is ‘Islamised’ during Ramadan

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ASIA NEWS:

by Mathias Hariyadi
Pamekasan District chief imposes jilbab on female public servants. Restaurants are closed during the day for a whole month. Nightclubs shut down as Muslim fundamentalists go after those who break the rules. On Sumatra Island, civil servants are fired if they break the fast.

Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Wearing the veil for female public servants and fasting, including job loss if caught eating, are becoming compulsory in Indonesia. In some parts of the country, Ramadan has become a time of Islamisation with rules increasingly inspired by Sharia. For the authorities, fasting and praying have become compulsory, forcing Muslims to abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk.

On Madura Island (East Java Province), Pamekasan District chief Kusairi issued a directive whereby all female employees must wear the jilbab, or headscarf. In order to promote conformity with Islamic principles, women street vendors have to conform to the obligation. For Kusairi, this will strengthen Muslim women’s faith. Continue Reading →

Chinese suspect Islamic terrorism on 2 recent occasions

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h/t Snaphanen

mandag, august 1, 2011

Xinjiang, China Reuter reports that Chinese Government suspects Muslim Extremists behind the Sunday attack in Kashgar City in the west region of Xinjiang, the attack has taken the lives of 11 people. The city and region came under the attack is dominated by Muslim Uighurs, which has been struggling the presence of Han Chinese people and political and religious norms imposed by Chinese government, this attack came within 24 hours two blasts went off of in the same city where Muslims Uighurs dominated.

A Kashgar government report said that a religious extremist group led and trained by overseas Muslim terrorist elements is the cause of the week end attack in the city.Preliminary investigation revealed that some top leaders of the extremist group were specially trained in Pakistan by “Islamic Movement of East Turkestan” on how to make bombs and explosives?. A News Agency from Xinhua has reported that the Police has shot dead five and arrested four after a attack on a restaurant and killed the owner and waiter and then ran on the streets and killed four others.
This is another kind of headache to the ruling Community Party in the course of terrorism. Captured extremists have confessed the recent attacks and their top leader had run to Pakistan to with “Islamic movement of East Turkestan”. Chinese police have started investigations in all its angle to nab the culprits and its gang to bring before the justice as soon as possible.