81% Chinese Sympathize With Christchurch Mosque Shooter, Online Survey

[HannibalBarca]

That's a tall claim, what do Rohingyas have anything to do with us? How we actively support genocide? what is non active support?

Well... Vetoing something against a resolution to push the state to stop per exemple?

 

[Lincoln]

Targeted intel to cause rift between allies.

Sometimes the truth is bitter, and this os the truth.

what is the sample size?

2000 people on a popular chinese social media website.


Here's an answer by a quorian :-


"Chinese people hate Muslims" is definitely an incorrect statement because it purports to speak for all Chinese people.

"Some Chinese people hate Muslims", or better yet "Some Chinese people fear/resent/don't understand/have little sympathy for Muslims" are much more fair statements.

Chinese anti-Muslims voices are strongest on the internet. In this day and age that's true of many forms of hate and bigotry. The internet has a tendency to amplify the loudest, angriest voices and anonymity allows people to say things they wouldn't otherwise. Based on my experience on the Chinese Quora (Zhihu) I can testify that strong anti-Muslim sentiment definitely exists. The reasons are manifold.

Most obvious, there's the spate of recent terrorist attacks in China, which the government has blamed on Muslim Uighurs. The growth of ISIS and the attacks it has coordinated or inspired overseas undoubtedly heighten Chinese peoples' sense of insecurity.

Other reasons for Chinese antipathy towards Muslims have more to do with China's domestic economy, politics, and cultural. Many Chinese are atheist and view allreligions with suspicion, not just Islam. But since Islam is often one of the more visible religions in China (Chinese Muslims can often be identified by their clothing whereas unless they're monks or Tibetans, Buddhists and Daoists cannot).

This may seem trivial, but Chinese people love pork, and view non-pork-eating Muslims with suspicious and resentment. Chinese have complained of being in situations where because Muslims were present they weren't able to eat pork.

Han Chinese complain that minorities in China get favorable treatment, from exceptions to the one child policy (less of an issue now, but was a big issue for years), and affirmative action policies in university admissions and the civil service exam. Granted, this complaint isn't against Muslims in particular, but against all minorities. There's another complaint that's often made, that when Uighurs break the law, the government is too cowardly to punish them. The implication is that Uighurs are above the law, and Chinese people resent that (whether or not that's actually true I'm not qualified to say, but my hunch is that the real situation is a lot more complicated).

My Opinion :-

This resentment is a thing in China without a doubt, mostly aimed at the Uighur population due to the fact that the Government of China gives the minorities greater rights, and many exemptions. The fact that Uighur minority is largely muslim, and that separatist ideas motivated in the name of religion have led to some terrorist attacks in China, the resentment has increased quite a bit. Their resentment, however, for Hui Muslims is much, much less as Hui people are ethnically Chinese and assimilated in culture since ancient China, and cannot be distinguished from ethnic Han people.

It is important to note that the root of this problem is the War on Terror, the war on terror opened up doors to a new era of religious terrorism which spread across the globe including Xinjiang, when the Uighurs started terrorist attacks, the public opinion of Islam and Turks in China went down manifolds to the point of hate, this was non existent before.

But it's still to be important to know that while there is general resentment among the traditional ethnic Athiest Chinese, which is the majority, for Islam and Muslims; their opinion of Pakistan is entirely reversed, they look at the Pakistani people from a completely different lense and see them as friends, and that is reflective in public opinion.

 

[beijingwalker]

Being anti-Islam is one thing... But "accepting" that 51Killed innocent is "Ok"... is another lvl of Bigotry.
It's like saying if I don't like China... I will be saying that I'm ok that innocent Chinese get murdered..see? it's a stupid comparison.

China has 1.4 billion people, I can safely say over 1 billion are against it. As for a personal account poll, birds of the same feather flock together, whoever visits his account are very likely his like minded bunch, it represents nothing.

 

[sinait]

Their country , Their rule, None of our business !!

This is one helluva skewed poll by an anti China media.
There will always be a small section of extremists in any society and in this case 81% of 2000 polled.
That is 0.000001% of Chinese.
I calculate this way because the average typical Chinese won't be interested to take part in the poll.

We must not forget how Facebook was manipulated in the US elections.
Most likely this poll had been manipulated to create divisions and denigrate China as well.
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[beijingwalker]

Well... Vetoing something against a resolution to push the state to stop per exemple?

Thats' active support, what is non active support? who do things align with our national interest as every country does, if you say that's committing genocide, be my guest.

 

[Lincoln]

This is one helluva skewed poll by a anti China media.
There will always be a small section of extremists in any society and in this case 81% of 2000 polled.
That is 0.000001% of Chinese.
I calculate this way because the average typical Chinese won't be interested to take part in the poll.

We must not forget how Facebook was manipulated in the US elections.
Most likely this poll had been manipulated to create divisions and denigrate China as well.
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Hi, seems like you're new to Social studies. No organization ever takes a full poll of everyone, even. Governments take census after many years: it's nearly practically impossible.

So they take sample sizes which are reflective of the larger population. The only valid conclusion you can draw from this is that 81% of all WeChat Chinese users sympathize in one form or another. That's just a conclusion to whom it can validly apply, not a definite answer, don't take it as one.

That survey was not performed by anti Chinese media, it was performed on Chinese social media where everyone who operates is Chinese because it is in Chinese, they have their own versions of Youtube, Quora and everything, you can visit sometime and see their public opinion for yourself too.

The root of the resentment is from the Uighur extremism, otherwise the resentment didn't exist before.

 

[MD hosain]

This is interesting. If 81% of population from sample group of any other country sympathized with this terrorist and racist supremacist for murdering 51 innocent Muslims, they would be labeled all kinds of things by the people on this forum

 

[beijingwalker]

There are some anti China youtube channels with tons of anti China remarks and comments in their comment section, cause most viewers are China haters just like those channels owners, other people rarely go to watch them, if you based those comments on what people believe, you'll get a very skewed picture.

From OP's post and pic we can clearly see that the author himself is a Muslim hater by his wording to ask those questions.

 

[HannibalBarca]

Thats' active support, what is non active support? who do things align with our national interest as every country does, if you say that's committing genocide, be my guest.

See... so whatever or whoever die...it's not a problem as long as money flow in...
In the End... Not better than those you criticize in the other side of the pacific...

 

[Lincoln]

There are some anti China youtube channels with tons of anti China remarks and comments in their comment section, cause most viewers are China haters just like those channels owners, other people rarely go to watch them, if you based those comments on what people believe, you'll get a very skewed picture.

True, I agree, I don't know how WeChat functions though, if it has categories or these sub links, for people with certain beliefs or not, like on reddit.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

@Indus Pakistan

Yes. On the face of it I will go along with the claims made in the OP. For the last 20 years there has been a conflation of various indigenous political issues under the catch all term of 'Muslim'. 9/11 and US media power began that process helped by the Islamists who see everything as Muslim/Non Muslim even when religion is not the issue. Any issue can be dressed in so many ways. Take Palestine. European occupation of Asia. White over Brown. Askkenzai Jews over Arabs. Judaism over Islam.

So given the times we live in and media sensationalism around the Muslim descriptor helped along by our extremists who love playing the 'Muslim card' I am not surprised about the OP. There are Chinese who hold extremelty low opinion's of Muslim's. There are also even Chinese who hold low opinions of Pakistani's.

But nothing changes. China is a stragetic ally of Pakistan. In the recent tiif with India as things got desperate for Pakistan it could only depend on China or Turkey. Certainly the Banglas were not about to help Pakistan. The only exceptional thing they have done is join Indian's to kill our soldiers in 1971. That was far worse then anything a Chinese teenager might be muttering about on the internet.

The world is a ugly, unfair place but you got to draw alliances, even if they are imperfect.

 

[beijingwalker]

True, I agree, I don't know how WeChat functions though, if it has categories or these sub links, for people with certain beliefs or not, like on reddit.

Wechat is a private app, only confirmed friends can view the contents

 

[HannibalBarca]

Yes. On the face of it I will go along with the claims made in the OP. For the last 20 years there has been a conflation of various indigenous political issues under the catch all term of 'Muslim'. 9/11 and US media power began that process helped by the Islamists who see everything as Muslim/Non Muslim even when religion is not the issue. Any issue can be dressed in so many ways. Take Palestine. European occupation of Asia. White over Brown. Askkenzai Jews over Arabs. Judaism over Islam.

So given the times we live in and media sensationalism around the Muslim descriptor helped along by our extremists who love playing the 'Muslim card' I am not surprised about the OP. There are Chinese who hold extremelty low opinion's of Muslim's. There are also even Chinese who hold low opinions of Pakistani's.

But nothing changes. China is a stragetic ally of Pakistan. In the recent tiif with India as things got desperate for Pakistan it could only depend on China or Turkey. Certainly the Banglas were not about to help Pakistan. The only exceptional thing they have done is join Indian's to kill our soldiers in 1971. That was far worse then anything a Chinese teenager might be muttering about on the internet.

The world is a ugly, unfair place but you got to draw alliances, even if they are imperfect.

Let's be honest... As long as you "benefit" yourself from it... then "ANY" alliance is ok...

 

[namefield_empty]

Chinese posters must understand that the years of repression and 'controlled release' has taken a heavy toll on the collective psyche, such small occurences may be considered the new normal henceforth.

 

[beijingwalker]

See... so whatever or whoever die...it's not a problem as long as money flow in...
In the End... Not better than those you criticize in the other side of the pacific...

They also say we genocide our minorities but we know we didn't, that's how much we trust them.

Chinese posters must understand that the years of repression and 'controlled release' has taken a heavy toll on the collective psyche, such small occurences may be considered the new normal henceforth.

Our collective pysche is way better and stronger than you Indians.