China's Muslims Claim Repression During Ramadan

Good. What apparently the muslims of China's Xinjiang province don't seem to get is that when you rise up and commit terrorist attacks in China and kill Chinese people, when you threaten to disrupt the Olympic Games you risk having the Chinese government go medievel on your ass and that is exactly what happened. I mean, seriously, do the islamists in Xinjiang really think the Chinese government and security forces were going to just let them dabble in some terror here and there with no retribution? I have no love lost for the oppressive communist regime of China but quite frankly, this is how you deal with islamists - per the article over at Breitbart:

Several local governments have posted lists of warnings on their Web sites, including a detailed one by the township of Yingmaili in Xayar county, near Kuqa. Government employees, teachers and students can't fast during Ramadan. Mosques can't host out-of-town visitors or play video and sound recordings. Proselytizing in public is prohibited. Surveillance of mosques must be increased. Restaurants must stay open during the daylight fasting period.
"All effective means must be used to make sure that men shave their beards and that women remove veils that cover their faces," adds the notice.
A slogan painted on a wall in the area warns Muslims it is illegal to make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca except with a government-sanctioned tour group.

These muslims seem outraged at the lack of religious freedom - well, knock knock puddin' heads, Christians and Buddhists in China have been oppressed for decades and they are actual religions. What's fascinating to me is that the talking points of the islamists in western China are the same talking points as those jihadists in Great Britain and those at CAIR here in the U.S. They demand special rights, special treatment and of course, demand their right to blow up hundreds of people if they don't get their way.

I say this...China should drive the lot right out of their country into Pakistan and why stop there? Just continue the push until the islamists are all bottled up in one country - lemme see....Iran?...and let em kill each other off. That would do the world a favor.

China's Muslims say Ramadan a time of repression

For Muslims, Ramadan is a time of fasting and prayer. But for China's Muslim ethnic Uighurs, the holy month is also full of fear and seething resentment about increasingly tight restrictions on how they practice their moderate form of Islam, influenced by the Sunni and Sufi sects.
Managing the restive Turkic people is developing into one of China's biggest challenges. Like the Tibetans, the Uighurs have been unwilling to buy into the government's plan: greater economic prosperity instead of greater religious freedom or autonomy.
This year has been especially jittery in Xinjiang, a sprawling territory three times the size of France that is home to 9 million Uighurs (pronounced WEE-GURS). Despite ramped-up security in the region before the Beijing Olympics, a string of bombings and deadly attacks—the worst wave of violence in a decade—deeply embarrassed China under the global spotlight.
China blamed terrorists, but has yet to release evidence that links terror groups to attacks that killed 33 people in Kuqa and Kashgar in western Xinjiang.
With the Olympics over and the world's focus elsewhere, it seems to be payback time for Xinjiang. Overseas Uighur rights groups have accused the government of mass arrests, which police deny. Uighurs interviewed by The Associated Press in Kuqa and Kashgar complained of sweeping detentions but would not say more. In Kuqa, security officials followed an AP journalist for most of his visit.
The most obvious signs of tension are the tight restrictions on Ramadan, which ends this week.
Several local governments have posted lists of warnings on their Web sites, including a detailed one by the township of Yingmaili in Xayar county, near Kuqa. Government employees, teachers and students can't fast during Ramadan. Mosques can't host out-of-town visitors or play video and sound recordings. Proselytizing in public is prohibited. Surveillance of mosques must be increased. Restaurants must stay open during the daylight fasting period.
"All effective means must be used to make sure that men shave their beards and that women remove veils that cover their faces," adds the notice.
A slogan painted on a wall in the area warns Muslims it is illegal to make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca except with a government-sanctioned tour group.
Such restrictions have long been on the books but were selectively enforced, said Dru Gladney, an expert on Uighurs at the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College in California.
"The government has really been enforcing these restrictions in Xinjiang more than in the past," Gladney said. "In other Muslim areas in China, you certainly don't see these similar kinds of restrictions."