China Now Finds Itself In the Crosshairs of Radical Islamic Terrorism Worldwide

At least one islamic terror group has now called for attacks on China to make the Communist nation pay for what the islamists view as a massacre of their muslim brothers, the Uighurs. A Turkish terror group made the formal announcement today regarding the targeting of China, from the article at Reuters - here's some excerpts:

The leader of a group calling itself the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) urged Muslims to attack Chinese interests to punish Beijing for what he described as massacres against Uighur Muslims.
"They (Chinese) must be targeted both at home and abroad. Their embassies, consulates, centers and gathering places should be targeted," Abdul-Haq al-Turkistani said in a video posted on an Islamist website on Saturday.
"Their men should be killed and captured to seek the release of our brothers who are jailed in Eastern Turkistan ... Our duty, we in Eastern Turkistan, is to continue to resist without desperation," said Abdul-Haq, described by an al Qaeda-linked website as the leader of TIP.

It will be interesting if any other terror groups follow suit on this - in the past, there haven't been a whole lot of terrorists who wanted to wake the sleeping beast, China. The Chinese typically don't dance with terrorists and their retribution is typically swift and severe (as it should be?).

The problem China will have in all of this is an infiltration of its western provinces by the islamists - if the Uighurs are joined in the fight by some of the tactically adept terror elements of the west, it could create some real bloodshed for the Chinese.

Militant urges targeting China over Uighurs

DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of a group calling itself the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) urged Muslims to attack Chinese interests to punish Beijing for what he described as massacres against Uighur Muslims.
"They (Chinese) must be targeted both at home and abroad. Their embassies, consulates, centers and gathering places should be targeted," Abdul-Haq al-Turkistani said in a video posted on an Islamist website on Saturday.
"Their men should be killed and captured to seek the release of our brothers who are jailed in Eastern Turkistan ... Our duty, we in Eastern Turkistan, is to continue to resist without desperation," said Abdul-Haq, described by an al Qaeda-linked website as the leader of TIP.
Abdul-Haq, whose group has launched violent attacks in the past, accused China of committing "barbaric massacres" against Muslims in Xianjiang, which TIP calls East Turkistan.
Uighurs are a Muslim people native to Xinjiang, in China's far west, and have cultural ties to Central Asia and Turkey.
Uighurs attacked Han Chinese in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, on July 5 after police tried to break up a protest against fatal attacks on Uighur workers at a factory in south China. Han Chinese in Urumqi launched revenge attacks later in the week.
The violence saw 197 people killed and more than 1,600 wounded, mostly Han Chinese. About 1,000 people, mostly Uighurs, have been detained in an ensuing government crackdown.
Exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer said on Wednesday that nearly 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China's northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night.
Abdul-Haq's face was digitally blurred in the Arabic-language version of the video which also contained a collage of footage of the violence in the region.
The militant was speaking with an assault rifle to his right and what appeared to be a pistol pouch strapped to his shoulder.
Beijing does not want to lose its grip on Xinjiang. The vast territory borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has abundant oil reserves and is China's largest natural gas-producing region.
The militant group has claimed violent attacks in the past including bombing two public buses in Shanghai in May 2008.